Morning Report

Journalist Nicky Hager has described the New Zealand Defence Force as being obsessed with making itself look good in public.

On Wednesday he told the Operation Burnham Inquiry it does that by keeping… Read more Audio

It's been nearly a year since Auckland introduced an 11.5 cents a litre Regional Fuel Tax, but it appears the city's motorists are still paying less at the pumps than many other parts of the country… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

An early look at the morning's business news and a catch up on overnight action on global financial markets. Audio

The Auckland City Mission says there's been a disturbingly high increase in people needing food parcels in the last twelve months.

There's been a 28-percent jump in demand - to about one million… Read more Audio

There's nothing riding on the last round robin match of the netball Premierhip but both the Southern Steel and Northern Stars still have plenty to play for in Invercargill tonight. Audio

Top stories this morning... Panic at Parliament after the Speaker says a rapist could be working there Some cancer patients are buying their own drugs from India because Pharmac won't fund them Fuel… Read more Audio

A rare painting of Captain Cook's second voyage to the Pacific has been bought by Te Papa.

The painting by William Hodges entitled 'Waterfall in Dusky Bay with Māori Canoe' has been held in a private… Read more Audio

For just over a century, Corporal Willie Snelgrove has been buried at a Porirua cemetery, north of Wellington, after dying of Spanish flu in December 1918.

But his grave has never had a headstone, so… Read more Audio

Tributes have been pouring in for Niki Lauda, the battle-scarred three times Formula One champion whose comeback from a near fatal fiery crash made him an enduring sporting legend.

The Austrian died… Read more Audio

Five government ministers have missed the deadline for releasing their ministerial diaries, including Greens co-leader James Shaw, whose party led the charge to 'shine a light' on government. RNZ… Read more Audio

The long-held view has been that the world's seas will rise by just under a metre by 2100, but new research suggests it could be double that because of accelerating melting in Greenland and… Read more Audio