Morning Report

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A couple living next to one of the country's busiest State Highway intersections say they will not give up the fight for major improvements - because lives, including theirs, are at risk. The… Read more Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is travelling to Tuvalu today, for this year's Pacific Islands Forum. The theme is Securing Our Future in the Pacific - and how to deal with climate change is expected to… Read more Audio

Almost 50 boats were damaged due to the wild weather in Auckland on Monday night. Lynne Halliburton, who lives onboard a boat that was moored in Westhaven Marina when a squall hit, says it was the… Read more Audio

The former Sri Lankan batsman helping the Black Caps for their Test series in the island nation says New Zealand are well placed to handle the spin bowling challenge coming their way. Audio

Terror in downtown Sydney as a man attacks people with a knife, killing one woman, Riot police and protesters clash after another night of chaos at Hong Kong airport, concern the Census botch up means… Read more Audio

A tree that was brought back from the brink of extinction has formally been returned to its iwi. The tree - kaikomako manawa tawhi or the pennantia baylisiana - was a lone tree found on Three Kings… Read more Audio

Volunteers helped remove more than 13,000 bags of rubbish from Fox River that had spewed from a disused landfill in flooding in March. The volunteers finished up this weekend, and the Defence Force… Read more Audio

Twenty tertiary institutions including a university and a wananga were threatened with having $9 million cut from their budgets this year because of poor pass rates for Maori and Pasifika students… Read more Audio

More than a hundred Dunedin residents, scientists, engineers and policy makers met last night to discuss the risks of flooding in low-lying suburbs. In 2015, floodwaters damaged more than 1000 homes… Read more Audio

A Hawke's Bay gang is using the ancient Maori tradition of massage to help recover from a spate of suicides and prevent further deaths. Members and associates of the Mongrel Mob Notorious gang say the… Read more Audio