Morning Report

Public health units confronting the pandemic are in crisis because they don't have enough doctors.

Funding for training new doctors is so limited, applicants have had to be turned away.

RNZ's Phil… Read more Audio

More than 22,000 school teacher aides are looking at a substantial pay increase - as the Ministry of Education and union NZEI Te Riu Roa have agreed to a deal on their pay equity claim.

Along with… Read more Audio

In just over an hour's time, two US astronauts will be sent into space, aboard the Crew Dragon capsule.

It's a launch of particular consequence - the first to happen off of US soil since 2011, and… Read more Audio

Bad debts and super-stressed household budgets are on the horizon.

The Reserve Bank says New Zealand's financial system is strong enough to withstand the impact of the Covid-19 virus.

Adrian Orr… Read more Audio

The discovery of two missing trampers alive and well after 19 days lost in bush north-west of Nelson is being described as miraculous. An intensive search and rescue operation has been underway to… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

Pro-democracy protesters have taken to the streets once more in Hong Kong, with 300 people arrested.

The protests have been staged in a response to two controversial laws being put through the… Read more Audio

Public health specialists are warning the pandemic has exposed a 'massive and hugely problematic shortfall' in investment.

This warning comes in a letter to the Prime Minister sent early this month… Read more Audio

The pilot who winched up the missing trampers says he felt a mixture of relief and euphoria upon rescuing them.

Dion Reynolds and Jessica O'Connor were located by search and rescue teams in Kahurangi… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

Waiheke Island residents fed up about a lack of social distancing on ferries and at the wharves have complained to the police and local politicians.

Ferry company Fullers reduced sailings to an… Read more Audio