Morning Report

The Reserve Bank is being accused of adding pressure to an already stretched housing market.

It is offering to pump another $28 billion dollars into the economy over the next couple of years through… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

Denmark's government has decided to cull all its mink - up to 17 million animals - because of the spread of coronavirus, shocking the nation last week.

That turned into a political outcry, after the… Read more Audio

The population of the Tasman District is booming and is now home to more people than neighbouring Nelson.

Marlborough, on Nelson's other flank, is also fast catching up.

What's putting the brakes on… Read more Audio

The Government and Red Cross have spent more than $15 million helping immigrants to pay their rent and bills after becoming stranded in the country without jobs.

Red Cross says some of those helped… Read more Audio

The first batch of refugees to arrive in the country since the border closed have now completed managed isolation.

The 16 asylum seekers were prioritised as emergency cases because of a perceived… Read more Audio

Some streets remain underwater in Napier on Wednesday and the city's mayor Kirsten Wise says the focus is on the suburb of Marewa, where it's still knee-deep in parts, and two homes were evacuated… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

After throwing millions of dollars at strengthening a Christchurch school, the Ministry of Education has decided it wants a rebuild instead.

The backtrack follows almost a decade of confusion, and… Read more Audio

New Zealand is one of only a handful of countries with prior arrangement to get the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine which has just been found to be 90 percent effective in trials.

Many questions remain to be… Read more Audio