Morning Report

The Education Minister says the "mega-strike" by teachers won't achieve anything as the government has already put its best pay offer on the table. The two teachers' unions - NZEI and the Post Primary… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

A Far North motorist caught up in the warrant of fitness debacle is struggling to know if her car is safe to drive or not. The Transport Agency has told Ruby MacKinnon she can't get another warrant… Read more Audio

The US President and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will be no-shows at a social media summit in Paris this week to be chaired by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron. The… Read more Audio

Manchester City have retained the English Premier League footbal title, with an emphatic 4-1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion on the final day of the season. Audio

The Education Minister says the joint primary and secondary teachers strike won't achieve anything, Jacinda Ardern's on her way to Paris for the Christchurch Call summit but without some… Read more Audio

Te Papa's Te Taiao exhibition features Aotearoa's extinct birds, and imagines what they would have sounded like in the wild. The bird calls were recreated by sound designers in Wellington, and have… Read more

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

It was no mere bird-brain surgery. Rather, it was a world first when the life of a young kakapo chick was saved by brain surgery at Massey University's Wildbase Hospital. Professor Brett Gartrell led… Read more Audio

Astronomers from around the world are gathering in Washington this week to discuss how world governments would respond to a major asteroid colliding with our planet. NASA has warned the Planetary… Read more Audio

Experts are warning of the legal complications of getting into a new relationship when a spouse is living with dementia. Almost 70,000 New Zealanders have the illness now; by 2050 100,000 more people… Read more Audio