Morning Report

District health boards are accusing the junior doctors' union of making misleading and or deceptive statements in their deepening pay row. The doctors are taking ongoing strike action at public… Read more Audio

The police are investigating allegations that a piece of Pike River evidence may have gone missing while in the care of the mine company. Some victims' families have just learned of the existence of a… Read more Audio

It will be weeks before the Auckland suburb of Devonport can be declared free of the Queensland fruitfly. Exhaustive checks are needed over an extended time before officials can be certain the fly is… Read more Audio

New Zealand golfer Ryan Fox says a bit of a breather before the final helped him focus as he won the World Super 6 in Perth and his maiden European Tour title. Audio

Children will return to Wakefield School today after a week away because of the Tasman fires. The school had been relocated to Hope. The principal, Peter Verstappen, expects 90 percent of the 260… Read more Audio

An immigration and employment lawyer says a law designed to protect migrant workers from exploitation, actually punishes them. Companies caught exploiting workers are banned from hiring new migrant… Read more Audio

The owner of a fruit store right in Devonport says her business has been affected by the fruit fly lockdown. A single male fruit fly was found in a suburban garden last Friday and bans are in place on… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A Tasman couple who still aren't able to return permanently to their small lifestyle block say they can't wait to go home. Ian and Maureen Grage's property is on Red Stag Lane - off Redwood Valley… Read more Audio

Farmers on leasehold Crown land are unhappy with possible new restrictions on how they can farm. The government wants to make it harder for those farming leasehold high country land to make changes to… Read more Audio