Morning Report

National Party MP Judith Collins is ahead of leader Simon Bridges in the preferred Prime Minister stakes in the most recent political polls.

And when asked on Morning Report if she thought Mr Bridges… Read more Audio

The government is defending its spending of more than $20 billion to upgrade the country's defence hardware, in what it calling a "humanitarian plan."

Included in the spending is more than $1 billion… Read more Audio

The Football Ferns coach Tom Sermanni hopes his side won't dwell on the disappointment of their last minute loss to the Netherlands in their opening game at the World Cup. Audio

The world's second largest retailer Costco is promising to provide stiff competition to established stores when it sets up in New Zealand.

Costco will be offering customers everything from groceries… Read more Audio

Fire and Emergency says more than half of the marae they've visited don't have smoke alarms and very few have sprinklers, putting the marae and taonga inside it - in some cases worth millions - at… Read more Audio

The Air Force's ageing Hercules aircraft are set to be replaced with five brand new Super Hercules planes at a cost of more than $1 billion.

The upgrade of the 50-year-old jets was the highest… Read more Audio

National leader Simon Bridges says the political poll that showed his party had gained support was the most similar to National's own polling.

Two polls released in the weekend had two different… Read more Video, Audio

Activists are hoping the Auckland Council will make real significant change after it voted yesterday to declare a climate change emergency.

All councillors supported the declaration. But several said… Read more Audio

A Wanaka midwives support group says the Southern District Health Board is wrong to say a woman who gave birth on an office floor could instead have used a room in a medical centre based in the same… Read more Audio

Hundreds of speed cameras attracting much larger fines could be added to the roading network under the next road safety strategy.

The Speed Reference Group is one of five advising the government on… Read more Audio

The one thing that they knew they had to achieve at this World Cup has come back to haunt the Football Ferns as they lost 1-nil to the Netherlands in their opening game in France. Audio