Morning Report

One of the Green Party's top ranking list candidates at the last election says he won't stand again, because he's unhappy with the party's direction.

Jack McDonald was 11th on the party's list in… Read more Video, Audio

The New Zealand tennis Michael Venus and his South African partner Raven Klaasen have captured their second ATP title of the year. Audio

New Zealand rugby legend Sir Brian Lochore died on Saturday, aged 78.

The Wairarapa farmer made his name as an All Black in the 1960s, taking over the captaincy in 1967 until his retirement in 1970.

The mayor of Buller District Garry Howard says an abandoned state mine dump at Hector is at risk of being clawed open by the sea as stormy weather and high tides continue to hammer the West Coast.

He… Read more Audio

From next year schools have to teach digital technology but a major report says many won't be able to.

The Education Review Office report raises serious doubts last year about schools' preparedness… Read more Audio

Marama Davidson is sticking by her fellow Green Party co-leader after he was accused of being too centrist.

One of the party's high ranking members is standing down, citing the party's centrist shift… Read more Audio

A Wellington woman who's losing her sight and mobility to multiple sclerosis is fundraising $100,000 to travel to Mexico for a radical stem cell treatment to fight the disease.

Bronwyn Hutchison, a… Read more Audio

Many cancer patients whose lives could be saved or extended by radiation therapy are choosing not to have it - because it's not available where they live and they don't want the expense and stress of… Read more Audio

The number of fatal and serious crashes of cars, trucks and buses without warrants or certificates of fitness is rising.

Transport researchers say it's concerning, but also puzzling, and there is no… Read more Audio

Hours after the El Paso gunman killed 20 people at a mall in Southern Texas another man shot at people outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio killing nine and wounding dozens more.

The shooter was killed at… Read more Audio

A second mass shooting in the US in just 13 hours has left nine people dead and 16 people injured.

The latest massacre was in Dayton, Ohio, and involved a gunman opening fire outside a bar. It's the… Read more Audio