Morning Report

After two years of debate health officials are now recommending that drugs containing codeine should available only on prescription.

Doctors and pharmacists are split - they want to stamp out abuse… Read more Audio

Residents on a major arterial route in Wellington are worried about a six-month-long road closure and one business is even considering shutting down.

New water mains need to be installed along… Read more Audio

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

Trustees from Dilworth school for underprivileged boys in Auckland are asking donors to help them to establish an equivalent school for girls.

Dilworth opened in 1906 and it offers fully funded… Read more Audio

Carvings from a Te Arawa wharenui are set to return home - more than 120 years after leaving New Zealand shores.

The wharenui Hinemihi was a tourist attraction at Lake Tarawera but was sold to… Read more Audio

The government will take the recommendations of a study into New Zealand's petrol industry to Cabinet - with the aim of reducing the cost of fuel consumers.

Yesterday the Commerce Commission released… Read more Audio

A chief economist says the Reserve Bank has underestimated the impact of its latest moves on borrowing.

The Reserve Bank is going to require banks to nearly double the amount of capital they need to… Read more Audio

Samoa's Prime Minister has refused to answer questions about why the Government stopped vaccinating against measles for 10 months.

Its decision came after two babies died from a MMR vaccination mixup… Read more Audio

The World Cup champion Silver Ferns have been awarded the New Zealand Olympic Committee's most prestigious award. Read more Audio

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has just finished its first year of studying the sun from closer than ever before.

The robotic spacecraft was launched in 2018, and today the Space Agency has released the… Read more Audio

Rugby players and boxers wanted, well your brains at least.

The University of Auckland's Centre for Brain Research wants you to donate your grey matter - after you're dead - so they can study the… Read more Audio

Bank customers are likely to wear at least some of the cost of the Reserve Bank's decisions to force the sector to hold more capital to help them better withstand a major financial crisis.

The Bank… Read more Audio