Morning Report

The long weekend is almost upon us but the Director General of Health says it's business as usual.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield is urging all New Zealanders to use the Covid Tracer App as they travel round… Read more Audio

The Wellington Phoenix are reportedly set to confirm the creation of the football club's first-ever women's team which would play in the upcoming W-league season. Read more Audio

Police are expecting congested roads over Labour Day weekend and are pleading with drivers to be patient.

With travel restricted to domestic holidays only - snarl-ups are likely in many parts of the… Read more Audio

Fatigue's deadly effect on our roads is being countered in some areas by the use of manned "fatigue stops".

Hawke's Bay Regional Council introduced the concept a decade ago in which drivers are… Read more Audio

Labour MP and LGBTQIA+ advocate Louisa Wall is calling on the Catholic church in New Zealand to support homosexual law reform in the Cook Islands.

Although a draft bill to decriminalise homosexuality… Read more Audio

The construction costs for a new hut along the Milford Track in FIordland have nearly doubled to more than $3 million since work started on the initial design.

The 40-bed Mintaro Hut will replace the… Read more Audio

America's Cup defenders Team New Zealand are incensed by the removal of two spectator-friendly courses that were to be used for next year's America's Cup.

The regatta's arbitration panel has said no… Read more Audio

Forty first time MPs have had a big first week in the capital, receiving a crash course on how to do their job.

While the results from the special votes are still yet to be revealed, Labour MPs will… Read more Audio

The Race Relations Commissioner is pushing for prisons to be run by iwi and is looking first and foremost at Mangaroa Prison near Hastings.

Meng Foon says the way prisons are run is not effective for… Read more Audio

Pubs and restaurants are on high alert ahead of the long weekend. Aucklanders queued for hours for tests yesterday after a person with Covid-19 visited a busy pub in Greenhithe.

Grady Elliot, the… Read more Audio

Fear of another community covid outbreak has put pubs and restaurants on high alert for Labour weekend.

Hundreds of Aucklanders queued for hours to get tested yesterday after a covid positive person… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio