Morning Report

A large fire on the roof of a restaurant closed off streets in central Wellington on Sunday afternoon.

Crews were called to fight the fire on the Cuba Street just after 4pm.

Charlotte Cook has more.

Warm and windy conditions helped to fan a fire in rural Otago over the weekend, spreading it five times faster than normal.

The fire started at the edge of Te Papanui Conservation Park near… Read more Audio

Two dozen of the 600 dead rats that washed up on a West Coast beach will be sent to Palmerston North today for testing to find out what killed them.

The Department of Conservation is hoping… Read more Audio

New political party Sustainable New Zealand thinks they have what it takes to be the next minor party in Parliament.

Sustainable New Zealand leader Vernon Tava is promising he will work with all… Read more Audio

Forty years on from the Erebus Disaster which claimed 257 lives, a former Attorney General says he has one real regret from that period.

In November 1979 an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed… Read more Audio

Documents show the country's major certifier of building products has been the subject of complaints, warnings and investigations since it began.

CertMark founder John Thorpe was investigated before… Read more Audio

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service has forecast 'catastrophic fire danger' for the Sydney and Hunter regions tomorrow, warning that lives and homes will be at risk.

Fires raged through New South… Read more Audio

Armed police from the newly formed Armed Response Teams have been used to pull over a car linked to a dishonesty crime on a suburban Hamilton road.

The police say the man in the car was arrested… Read more Audio

Subdued celebrations from New Zealand driver Scott McLaughlin after clinching his second Supercars title in two seasons. Read more Audio

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

The new political party Sustainable New Zealand thinks they have what it takes to be the next minor party in Parliament, with a simple approach to politics.

The Party's leader Vernon Tava told… Read more Audio

A police Armed Response Team has been used to pull over a car linked to a dishonesty crime in Hamilton.

The police say this was appropriate because the man found in the car had been known to carry… Read more Audio