Morning Report

A rural Hawke's Bay community says an Education Ministry plan to cut its school bus service in half will have devastating consequences for children and their families. Elsthorpe residents say the… Read more Audio

Greg Murphy hopes this is the weekend either Scott McLaughlin or Shane van Gisbergen finally join him as a Bathurst 1000 champion. Murphy is the last New Zealander to be the lead driver of a winning… Read more Audio

Eighty senior doctors in Palmerston North have written to their DHB to complain of the inadequate state of the hospital and the harm it is causing patients. They're calling it a crisis, pointing to a… Read more Audio

A researcher into the alt-right and white nationalism says the overnight terror attack in Germany is amost definitely alt-right related. The gunman was wearing military-style clothing, and a… Read more Audio

Low voter turnout and the way votes are cast are concerning mayoral candidates across the country - hoping to take out the top job. Voting in the local body elections closes at noon on Saturday. As… Read more Audio

A brief update on the movements in the financial sector. Audio

A damning report into the Transport Agency has found pervasive problems in the culture and structure of the agency from the senior leadership down. The Agency had a backlog of over 850 compliance… Read more Audio

Continuing with the situation in northeastern Syria, US President Donald Trump has released a statement saying the US "does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation… Read more Audio

Turkish warplanes have bombed parts of north-eastern Syria at the start of an offensive which could lead to conflict with Kurdish-led allies of the US. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the… Read more Audio

Footage from an anti-Semitic attack in the German city of Halle was livestreamed overnight on Amazon's video gaming platform Twitch. Two people were killed in the attacks on a synagogue and a kebab… Read more Audio