Morning Report

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

Test rugby has returned in nail-biting style, with the All Blacks somehow escaping with a 16-all draw against Australia in yesterday's first Bledisloe Cup Test in Wellington.

The teams couldn't be… Read more Audio

Labour has failed to get DHB deficits under control this term despite going hard on underfunding when in opposition.

At the moment 19 of the 20 DHBs are in the red but the problem of health boards… Read more Audio

Melbourne's emergence from a gruelling, months-long lockdown may be delayed again - as the rate of new coronavirus cases has stayed stubbornly above the levels set to trigger the relaxation of… Read more Audio

The race for Tāmaki Makaurau is tightening up

A new Māori Television-Curia Market Research poll has the current MP, Labour's Peeni Henare, at 35 percent with the Māori Party's John Tamihere just six… Read more Audio

The All Blacks coach Ian Foster doesn't believe being held to a 16-all draw by the Wallabies in Wellington puts them on the back foot for the Bledisloe Cup series.

In his first match in charge… Read more Audio

Learner drivers in small towns and country areas are taking to the roads illegally because the tests to get their licence have been banned outside of bigger main centres.

Teenagers often have their… Read more Audio

Reducing child poverty formed the centrepiece of Labour's 2017 campaign with leader Jacinda Ardern personally leading the charge.

But three years on has anything got better under the coalition… Read more Audio

Against a backdrop of an unprecedented global crisis, one of the most unusual elections in a generation will be over in under a week.

So in the last week of campaigning we're attempting to catch up… Read more Audio

Five-days before the last general election in 2017, 500 farmers took part in a noisy protest in the Waikato town of Morrinsville to complain about what they perceived as Labour's and the Greens'… Read more Audio

The All Blacks have held the Bledisloe Cup since 2003 but this year's series has been blown wide open following last night's 16-all draw in the opening test in Wellington.

The Wallabies, under new… Read more Audio

The Government has done a deal over facial recognition technology that throws access to it wide open.

The Internal Affairs Department has signed a master agreement with a leading global biometrics… Read more Audio