Morning Report

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

It has not started yet but some schools are already looking for ways to get around the new system.

Principals have told our education correspondent John Gerritsen that some schools are setting up… Read more Audio

National's Nick Smith has not been shy in the debating chamber this week in his assessment of the secretive New Zealand First Foundation.

Now he's received an email from Winston Peters' lawyer Brian… Read more Audio

The New Zealand bowler Neil Wagner admits he's not too sure how the Bay Oval wicket will play out over the next few days but concedes they'll need some early wickets today to remain in contention in… Read more Audio

Westland remains divided over a hydro-power scheme on the Waitaha River that was vetoed by the Environment Minister in August.

Oppostion leader Simon Bridges has stepped in with a promise to give the… Read more Audio