Morning Report

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Advocates for healthy homes say the government's budget its Warmer Kiwi Homes programme will leave thousands in the cold.

The scheme has been expanded to cover 90 percent of the costs of insulation… Read more Audio

The Government's big spending budget yesterday laid out how it would fight the impact of Covid-19 and steer New Zealand's economy back on track.

Fifty billion is a big war chest, but it appears… Read more Audio

Kōhanga Reo say their staff have been underpaid and undervalued for too long and the budget's substantial cash injection will go some way to addressing that. 

The government is investing nearly $200… Read more Audio

In Auckland so many men are flocking to barbers you could be excused for thinking you were at Masterton's Golden Shears competition.

Reporter Anneke Smith is outside The Barbers Room on Dominion Rd… Read more Audio

The divisive relationship between the Dunedin City Council and central city businesses may be ready to explode if proposed speed limit changes come into force.

The council will decide today on a… Read more Audio

Hardware stores are among the hardest hit in the lockdown retail slump with the country's two big operators closing sites.

Bunnings Warehouse is proposing to close seven stores that are no longer… Read more Audio

Lockdown rules have meant nearly empty roads and a dramatic decline in car and motorcycle accidents over the past seven weeks.

There is concern about what will happen when rusty drivers get back… Read more Audio

Mark Brown, the deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of the Cook Island's has called for the country's recent status of "developed nation" to be revoked, to help the country access funds to… Read more Audio

The nurses organisation is calling for Worksafe to investigate how seven nurses caught Covid-19 at Waitakere Hospital.

They caught the virus after infected residents from St Margarets rest home were… Read more Audio