Morning Report

The Auckland City Mission says there's been a disturbingly high increase in people needing food parcels in the last twelve months.

There's been a 28-percent jump in demand - to about one million… Read more Audio

There's nothing riding on the last round robin match of the netball Premierhip but both the Southern Steel and Northern Stars still have plenty to play for in Invercargill tonight. Audio

Top stories this morning... Panic at Parliament after the Speaker says a rapist could be working there Some cancer patients are buying their own drugs from India because Pharmac won't fund them Fuel… Read more Audio

A rare painting of Captain Cook's second voyage to the Pacific has been bought by Te Papa.

The painting by William Hodges entitled 'Waterfall in Dusky Bay with Māori Canoe' has been held in a private… Read more Audio

For just over a century, Corporal Willie Snelgrove has been buried at a Porirua cemetery, north of Wellington, after dying of Spanish flu in December 1918.

But his grave has never had a headstone, so… Read more Audio

Tributes have been pouring in for Niki Lauda, the battle-scarred three times Formula One champion whose comeback from a near fatal fiery crash made him an enduring sporting legend.

The Austrian died… Read more Audio

Five government ministers have missed the deadline for releasing their ministerial diaries, including Greens co-leader James Shaw, whose party led the charge to 'shine a light' on government. RNZ… Read more Audio

The long-held view has been that the world's seas will rise by just under a metre by 2100, but new research suggests it could be double that because of accelerating melting in Greenland and… Read more Audio

Legal experts are concerned charging the man accused of the Christchurch mosque attacks with terrorism is risky, and will give him a platform to espouse white supremacist views.

The terrorism charge… Read more Audio

Andrea Black is the national media spokesperson for the Rape Crisis organisation. She talks to Susie Ferguson. Audio

Loud calls for reform are sounding after the release of a scathing report on bullying and harassment at Parliament. The report makes 85 recommendations for change, but how hard will it be to change… Read more Audio