Morning Report

Lawyers for Stephen Stone, serving life in prison for the murders of Deane Fuller-Sandys and Leah Stephens, have lodged an appeal against his convictions in the Court of Appeal.

The Crown's case was… Read more Audio

The Electoral Commission is assuring Māori voters they will get the correct ballot papers at voting booth's this election. 

It received 40 complaints from Māori last election about poor voting… Read more Audio

Farmers straddling the Auckland-Waikato regional boundary are frustrated they haven't been able to check stock or get essential supplies because of the Alert Level 3 restrictions.

Auckland Federated… Read more Audio

The government's yellow and white QR code posters will become mandatory of all businesses from noon today, so customers can scan in with their phones for contact tracing.

The Ministry of Health says… Read more Audio

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