Morning Report

The New Zealand women's cricket team are hoping to reverse recent fortunes at pinnacle events when the Twenty20 World Cup gets underway in Australia this weekend.

Across both the one-day and T20… Read more Audio

The New Zealand men's basketball team has recorded its first win over Australia in 11 years. Read more Audio

A Spitfire will be heard in Auckland today as New Zealand farewells a Spitfire pilot from the Second World War Two.

Jim Robinson, who has died aged 99, was the last of four New Zealand members of RAF… Read more Audio

The Cancer Society's head Mike Kernaghan says South Auckland women who've had their cancer diagnoses delayed are the victims of a borderline third world health system.

Thirty-five women at Counties… Read more Audio

An apparent family violence incident in Brisbane has resulted in the deaths of three children under 10, their mother and their father.

It's alleged Rowan Baxter, a former New Zealand Warriors player… Read more Audio

Wanaka residents are fuming about what they see as a lack of consultation over a plan to expand the airport.

The council organised two meetings this week - one in Wanaka and one in Frankton - but… Read more Audio

A Hawkes Bay kaumatua says the whānau of a boy severely beaten are distraught and devastated and says Oranga Tamariki need to accept responsibility for their part in the case. 

The police say they… Read more Audio

It bills itself as large on life, but Nelson is also long on life.

Residents of Nelson have the longest median lifespan in the country - 86 for women and 81 for men.

To share some of the secrets of… Read more Audio

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

More now on our earlier story on schools increasingly resisting attempts to make them enrol children who have been kicked out of other schools for violent behaviour.

Primary school principals say… Read more Audio

An electoral law expert says the National Party can't entirely wash its hand of the fraud charges laid against Jami-Lee Ross.

Ross used to be a National Party MP but is now independent.

He's named… Read more Audio