Morning Report

It's back to the drawing board for the country's biggest iwi with the Government announcing what it calls a "new opportunity" for Ngāpuhi to negotiate its Treaty claims.

For the past decade Maori in… Read more Audio

Ports of Auckland says shifting the port to Northland will add up to $630 million a year to the cost of imports, according to a study from NZIER.

It also says extra CO2 emissions from freighting… Read more Audio

An American sports administrator says moving away from specialisation in young athletes is pivotal to New Zealand's future success at the elite level. Read more Audio

President Trump called Democrats "very unpatriotic" for pursuing his impeachment while he is overseas meeting with NATO leaders.

The House Intelligence Committee is set to release a report detailing… Read more Audio

New Zealand's worrying long-term decline in the international PISA tests of reading, maths and science has continued.

Overnight the OECD published the results of last year's tests of 600,000 15 year… Read more Audio

Three women who say their daughters were abused by Peter Ellis say a possible Supreme Court appeal is taking them to breaking point.

The fomer Christchurch Civic Creche worker, who died in September… Read more Audio

The government is proposing to make it legal for those over 20 to buy up to 14 grams of cannabis a day.

All advertising of cannabis products would be banned. The details of the proposed law change… Read more Audio

In Samoa, the government has issued a new raft of emergency orders in a desperate bid to get the deadly measles epidemic under control.

The disease has killed 55 people, mainly children, and the toll… Read more Audio

The government has announced the suggested bill and wording for the 2020 cannabis referendum.

Under the law Kiwis over the age of 20 would be able to grow two plants and purchase up to 14 grams a… Read more Audio

The haze surrounding the cannabis referendum is starting to lift - with more details revealing what a yes vote next year would mean.

The Government's released a draft bill setting out the rules which… Read more Audio

New Zealand sailor Blair Tuke was a little embarrassed by their capsize which cost them an almost perfect day to start the 49er World Championships in Auckland. Audio

Aucklanders will have to pay up to nearly $630 million more a year for imports if its current cargo hub is moved to another city, according to a new study.

Economists at New Zealand Institute of… Read more Audio