Morning Report

Major gaps have been identified in national security including no strategy to prevent terrorist attacks.

A senior lecturer of security studies who has researched the system for three years says the… Read more Audio

The Australian cricket captain Aaron Finch admits to some nervous moments on their way to a 15 run win over the West Indies in their World Cup game at Trent Bridge. Audio

A world-leading roading trial in New Plymouth may offer a solution for the thousands of tonnes of difficult to recycle plastic grades - 3 through 7 - collected in New Zealand each year.

The plastics… Read more Audio

The family of missing tramper Darren Myers are not giving up hope of finding him a week after he went missing in the Tararua ranges.

Mr Myers left last Tuesday morning for a five-day hike from Levin… Read more Audio

Police are calling for more victims of serial rapist Richard George Apperley to come forward.

Wairarapa Detective Senior Sergeant Haley Ryan tells Susie Ferguson that the 39-year-old began offending… Read more Audio

A community leader in Palmerston North is urging the police to step up and do more to keep the migrant and muslim community safe.

Rana Naser from the Manawatu Multicultural Council says police aren't… Read more Audio

Four people found shot on Thursday are believed to have driven injured along dark country roads for kilometres in rural Waikato in a desperate bid to find medical help.

The police say one person died… Read more Audio

The flu has started hitting around New Zealand and health experts fear the outbreak could be particularly nasty this year.

In Australia, 139 people have died already - three times more than usual.

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With national stocks of the flu vaccine about to run out there's a warning even people regarded as high risk could miss out.

It's too late to buy more for this season and so the Ministry of Health… Read more Audio

Fifty senior doctors have told members of Hawke's Bay District Health Board that chronic staff and bed shortages and delays in elective surgeries are putting patients' safety at risk.

The consultants… Read more Audio

Major gaps have been identified in national security including no strategy to prevent terrorist attacks.

The government is acknowledging the gaps even as the Royal Commission of Inquiry investigates… Read more Audio

An impressive batting display by Nathan Coulter-Nile and a devastating display of death bowling by Mitchell Starc has got the Australian cricketers through to a 15 run win over the West Indies in… Read more Audio