Morning Report

What better time than during Maori language week to have our top senior students battle it out in the national Maori speech competitions. Four victors have just emerged from the Nga Manu Korero… Read more Audio

Tributes are flowing for Tongan prime minister and long-time democracy campaigner, 'Akilisi Pohiva, who died yesterday. Jenny Salesa, New Zealand's first Tongan-born Cabinet Minister, joins us. Audio

A teenager giving evidence at Dimetrius Pairama's murder trial has been accused of lying to protect herself. Miss Pairama's body was found in a steel drum at the back of a derelict state house in… Read more Audio

On the same day the government committed to teaching New Zealand history in schools, it has apologised for what has been described as the final shots of the New Zealand Wars. The first reading of the… Read more Audio

Emails show the mayor of Lower Hutt was told in February that bad plumbing in a retirement complex was 'life-threatening'. All 96 apartments, worth up to 700 thousand dollars each, at the Masonic… Read more Audio

Auckland secondary school principals are backing the government's plan to ban sweet vape flavours. They say it will help curb an epidemic of vaping among teenagers at some schools. The government is… Read more Audio

The Labour Party has faced a battering this week over its handling of sexual assault accusations levelled at a Labour Party staffer. and the storm surrounding Labour is showing no sign of abating even… Read more Audio

About 25 women made widows by the Christchurch mosque attacks, many with young children, have been left with no other family to support them in New Zealand. The scale of the problem is revealed in… Read more Audio

Apple's cut price digital streaming service is aiming to undercut the already flooded streaming market, Corin Dann spoke to tech website journalist Ashley Carman about Apple's staretgy Audio