Morning Report

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

A small group of MPs have returned to the capital for a stripped back version of Parliament - with the government's Covid response, in particular the country's border at the top of the agenda.

It was… Read more Audio

How did an isolation hotel maintenance worker get Covid-19 from an infected guest he had never met?

A modeller says the man could have sparked a large cluster if he wasn't picked up by routine… Read more Audio

The Democrats are holding their national convention this week - but it's not a convention as you'd know it.

Gone are the balloons and the big crowds and hoopla of old.

Instead the convention is… Read more Audio

A Whakatāne primary school is disappointed it is the only school in the town that is not in the government's free school lunch scheme.

St Joseph's Catholic School is worried it will lose enrolments… Read more Audio

Epidemiologists say New Zealand needs a new, more generic pandemic plan which caters to worst case scenarios.

They say the Ministry of Health's national pandemic plan didn't properly account for a… Read more Audio

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

A former Labour Party president says the Prime Minister's decision to postpone the election by four weeks is a sensible compromise.

The country will now go to the polls on 17 October instead of 19… Read more Audio

Businesses are labelling the wage subsidy extension a short-tem quick fix and they're wanting much greater certainty long term.

A new nationwide subsidy to cover the period Auckland is in Alert Level… Read more Audio