Morning Report

Groups supporting beneficiaries have written an open letter to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, calling for urgent changes to the way the welfare system defines relationships.

At the moment… Read more Audio

An Auckland MRI technician says staff are literally running between patients as they try to get their work done and slash growing backlogs.

More than 2000 Auckland patients are on waiting lists for… Read more Audio

New Zealand are on track to go one nil up in the test series against England heading into the final day of the first test at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. Read more Audio

Neighbours are shocked after police in Tauranga shoot dead a man holding children hostage.

Safety concerns stop the awarding of tenders for school bus routes.

Andrew Little rules out changes to the… Read more Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Read more Audio

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station in an effort to stop the building from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.

The house - in the northern Austrian town of Braunau on… Read more Audio

Four million phones should receive a loud alert this Sunday between six and seven in the evening as part of a national test.

Last year, only six out of 10 New Zealanders received the emergency test… Read more Audio

Firefighters battled hundreds of bushfires across Australia on Thursday as scores of blazes sprang up in new locations under hot and windy conditions.

More than 60 fires flared across Victoria, more… Read more Audio

New Zealand's experienced pace bowlers repaid the faith placed in them on the first day of the opening test against England.

Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme and Neil Wagner bowled… Read more Audio

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

Floating platforms are being set up to help the chicks of critically endangered black-billed gulls, who have made a home in the ruins of a quake-damaged building in Christchurch. 

The birds, which… Read more Audio

The Minister for Pacific Peoples has been fielding a flood of questions from the Samoan community in New Zealand about whether it's safe to go back home for Christmas during a measles outbreak.

Samoa… Read more Audio