Morning Report

A Wairarapa farmer says heavy rain that fell over the weekend will be a "gamechanger" for the drought-stricken region.

Wairarapa is classified as "extremely dry" and a large-scale adverse event has… Read more Audio

The Director-General of Health is expecting more cases of community transmission to come to light this week.

That's despite a dip in the number of new cases reported yesterday.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield… Read more Audio

The Easter Trading Laws could be amended to let supermarkets stay open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, days where they are normally forced to stay closed.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told Susie… Read more Audio

New Zealand has 514 cases of Covid-19, with one death and 56 recovered.

Let's look more at the numbers.

University of Auckland Professor Shaun Hendy speaks to Corin Dann. Read more Audio

Medical staff from Canterbury are heading to the West Coast to help after 21 health workers from Greymouth's hospital had to go into isolation.

They had been treating the 70-year-old woman who… Read more Audio

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

The $5 billion foreign student industry is facing a massive downturn with as many as half of this year's enrolements now in doubt.

Visa figures indicate only 60,000 of the nearly 120,000… Read more Audio

Those over 70 and people with underlying health conditions were the first to feel the brunt of the lockdown, being told to stay home four days before the rest of the country.

Overseas experience has… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

The county-wide lockdown in Italy looks set to stay in place for some time yet as the death toll from the Coronavirus pandemic surged past 10,000.

The number of confirmed cases in Italy is nearing… Read more Audio