Morning Report

More New Zealanders are looking to charter private flights as the sector reels from the effect of Covid-19.

Border closures has meant the luxury travel option has shrivelled following the loss of… Read more Audio

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

Home-based hobbies and handcrafts are enjoying a surge in popularity in these uncertain times.

More and more grown-ups are finding solace in jigsaws, board games and even lego.

Ruth Hill reports. Read more Audio

Around 80 percent of the surf breaks in California could be gone by the end of the century according to research into rising sea levels.

Surfers here - where no equivalent study has been done -… Read more Audio

Everywhere around New Zealand kerbside rubbish collections are a normal part of every week, but there's no rubbish collection in Kaikōura. 

Residents have petitioned the Kaikōura District Council to… Read more Audio

Fifteen people have been trespassed by the Auckland Council for taking tramping trips in the Waitakere Ranges.

Most tracks in the ranges were closed in 2018 to stop the spread of kauri dieback… Read more Audio

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

Farmers around Auckland's southern border are finding themselves unable to check their stock, and having to drive vast distances to get feed and equipment.

They're calling on the government make them… Read more Audio

Some 16-year-olds are so determined to gain the right to vote, they're about to take their case to the High Court.

Make It Sixteen, a youth-led campaign, will have their case heard on Monday.

They… Read more Audio

Psychologists, medics and the Ministry of Justice are ramping up mental health services in readiness for the Christchurch mosque gunman's sentencing next week.

Brenton Tarrant will be sentenced on 51… Read more Audio

Thousands of home owners are slipping behind on their mortgages, with almost 250,000 payments missed since April.

Reserve Bank data shows 10, 905 homeowners were in arrears at the end of the first… Read more Audio