Morning Report

A new tropical cyclone warning system hopes to give Pacific Islands months more time to prepare for big weather events.

The new system will be able to predict tropical cyclones for individual… Read more Audio

Seismic data collected from around the world - including New Zealand - has found that the world was half as loud during lockdown.

The measuring of seismic waves is usually focused on detecting… Read more Audio

New Zealand citizens living overseas say they feel unwelcome to return home as the question of charging for quarantine remains unanswered.

On a new facebook group called 'Team of Six Million', Kiwis… Read more Audio

An Auckland pizza shop owner who uncovered what's known in the retail industry as "chargeback or refund fraud" wants more businesses to be on alert for the scam.

Scammers target customers buying… Read more Audio

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

Southland Museum is ramping up its pest control after a rat broke into an enclosure and ate one of the museum's resident tuatara.

The rogue rat scaled a two-metre pipe and climbed through an air vent… Read more Audio

The Opportunities Party, which launched its election campaign last night with a key policy of installing a universal basic income.

It proposes to give adults $13,000 dollars a year and $2000 dollars… Read more Audio

Māori trying to switch electoral rolls ahead of the election are frustrated they won't be able to do so until 2024. 

It's led to renewed calls from the Electoral Commission to allow Māori to switch… Read more Audio

A huge backlog of court cases should start to clear by early next year with the government spending $50 million on more judges, staff and resources.

Nearly 50,000 cases were adjourned in the District… Read more Audio

Teachers are disappointed and frustrated with minimal changes the government has made to their right to physically restrain students.

They say after years of debate Parliament has passed amendments… Read more Audio

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is jetting down to Invercargill this morning to hold a "Save Tiwai" rally in the city.

Peters declared his intention to fight the closure of the Tiwai Point… Read more Audio

All Black and Hurricanes loosie Ardie Savea has thrown his support behind the proposal to include a Pacific Islands team in a revamped Super Rugby competition next year. Read more Audio