Morning Report

Earthquake-prone building owners are warning the axe still hovers over them despite the Government's offer of more money to help. Steve Quinn loves a century-old bank in the main street of Marton. But… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The security threats posed by climate change, and growing global instability, will be among the topics discussed at a high level security conference in Munich on Friday (NZ time). Our correspondent in… Read more Audio

New Zealand Cricket's high performance boss Bryan Stronach says White Ferns coach Haidee Tiffen has no reason to feel the full impact of the latest review of the team's World T20 campaign. Audio

US space agency NASA has called time on its Mars Rover, Opportunity. The robot known as 'Oppy' and its twin robot, called Spirit, landed on Mars in January 2004 with the goal of investigating whether… Read more Audio

A thick dust cloud that's been causing problems with visibility and air quality in the south east of Australia is expected to arrive in New Zealand later on Thursday. MetService says it will be blown… Read more Audio

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will reopen the Christmas Island detention centre which closed in October last year. It comes in response to a government defeat in Parliament, when a… Read more Audio

Council officers in the Far North have seized the dogs they suspect attacked an elderly man in Kaikohe this week. Jim Morgan - who's 95 - was bitten on the hip by one of two unregistered dogs that… Read more Audio

Officials in Papua New Guinea are looking for nearly 300 cars imported for November's APEC summit that have gone missing. The police have even gone as far as creating a special unit to recover the… Read more Audio

After a bad week for wildlife, Forest and Bird says the government should crack down on fishing companies and ban trawlers from fishing in waters where endangered species live. This week four… Read more Audio