Morning Report

It's been a challenging year for the Labour Party - and members will have a chance to look back on the ups and downs at the annual conference this weekend.

The venue is Whanganui - where party… Read more Audio

The Hepatitis Foundation has called in the auditors as it pushes back against an investigation that's highly critical of its extravagant spending.

At the same time the Foundation's been put on notice… Read more Audio

Harrowing stories about Northland's housing crisis have been revealed at a Hui in Whanagrei with some people saying they resorted to living in treehouses.

The Minister for Maori Development Nanaia… Read more Audio

The Muslim community wants the proposed second tranche of new gun legislation to stand or fall on its own merits and not using the Christchurch attacks to justify it.

If passed the revised Arms Act… Read more Audio

The death toll from measles continues to rise in Samoa and now stands at 39 with almost 3000 people infected with the highly contagious disease throughout the country.

All but four of the deaths are… Read more Audio

The widow of the pilot of the plane that crashed into Mt Erebus 40 years ago says an apology from the Government and Air New Zealand took her completely by surprise.

Maria Collins was at Government… Read more Audio

Veteran test batsman Ross Taylor believes the depth of New Zealand cricket is the best it's been in the time he has been in the side. Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

A Northland social worker says some whanau are having to live in trees because they can't get housing.

Christiane Rudolph-Anania from Te Ha Oranga says in the last three years that she's been working… Read more Audio

A charity taxation specialist with thirty years experience in the sector says the regulator has done little more than slap the Hepatitis Foundation with a wet bus ticket.

The foundation spent more… Read more Audio

Samoa's school children have skipped important exams and the last few weeks of school as the measles epidemic heightens.

Thirty-nine people are confirmed dead from the highly contagious disease as… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio