Morning Report

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

The Green Party is being warned that a fertiliser levy isn't the answer to more sustainable farming.

The Greens unveiled its agriculture policy in Canterbury at the weekend, where the party announced… Read more Audio

At least 33 people have died in wild fires ravaging the West Coast of the United States.

Fires have been raging in Oregon, California and Washington state for three weeks, burning millions of acres… Read more Audio

Fire fighters are battling a fire on a fishing boat in Milford Sound on Monday morning.

Reporter Jean Bell speaks to Susie Ferguson. Read more Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

A new housing development for disabled children has been opened in Napier.

The new homes have been built especially for the children and are designed to reduce sensory overload - cutting down on… Read more Audio

A colourful byproduct of a dark chapter in New Zealand's wartime history has been unearthed by researchers in the form of hundreds of artworks made by prisoners of war brought here during World War… Read more Audio

The Japanese Coast Guard has called off its full-time search for Gulf Livestock 1, the live export ship that went missing in a typhoon in the East China Sea.

That leaves 40 crew members, including… Read more Audio

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

An international expert in infectious disease says the halting of a Covid-19 vaccine trial by Oxford University is a positive sign.

AstraZeneca paused the third stage of clinical trials for the… Read more Audio