Morning Report

One of the leading young members of the Green Party is stepping aside, saying the party is becoming too centrist under James Shaw's co-leadership.

Jack McDonald has stood as an election candidate… Read more Audio

A former cancer patient is welcoming the news that over the next three years the government will be bringing radiation treatment to Hawke's Bay, Taranaki and Northland.

Teacher and mother of two… Read more Audio

A second century in the match to Steve Smith has Australia well in control - after the fourth day of the first Ashes cricket Test against England in Birmingham. Audio

29 people have been killed in two separate shootings in the US over the weekend The number of fatal and serious crashes of cars, trucks and buses without warrants is on the rise. The commercial catch… Read more Audio

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

A NASA satellite has discovered three new worlds - one of which could be habitable - in what is just its first year in orbit.

The satellite, known as TESS, was launched in 2018 in the hope of finding… Read more Audio

Not everyone is happy with the government's plan to merge all the country's polytechs - the Southland Institute of Technology for one.

Invercargill's zero fees polytech has bucked the trend for… Read more Audio

A group of students want the public to boycott an exhibition by a controversial artist - labelling him a racist whose work appropriates Māori culture.

Theo Schoon was an influential but deeply… Read more Audio

Stay away from the beach this weekend if you live on the West Coast.

Civil Defence is warning that swells of close to 10-metres will hammer the coast over the weekend.

Corin Dann speaks with Mark… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

Radical changes to drinking water standards were announced this week, aimed at prompting councils to lift their game.

The Government made similar revisions 15 years ago for the same reasons – yet in… Read more Audio

Maori land activists in Wellington who are fighting a housing development in Shelly Bay say they're watching the outcome of the Ihumatao occupation closely.

The Mau Whenua group says some of their… Read more Audio