Morning Report

Dutch police have arrested their prime suspect in a 20-year-old murder case after the country's largest ever DNA testing operation Audio

It's D-Day for the Waimea Dam, with the council set to vote on whether to push on with the controversial project. The latest figures put the price tag at 108 million-dollars - 26 million more than… Read more Audio

Kindergartens and playcentres are trying to secure their futures by forming multi-million-dollar national organisations that will have more financial clout and which will be able to counter falling… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson was at the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's speech at Westpac business audience. Audio

One of Te Papa's most important whale skeletons is being stored in a building that was dirty, and had birds, insects, and possibly rodents living in it. Experts are shocked to hear how the national… Read more Audio

A UN report has accused Myanmar's military leaders of carrying out genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Muslim Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities. Virginia Pycroft is a New… Read more Audio

A new study has revealed that earthquakes, much like landslides, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Dr Jamie Howarth from Victoria University tells Susie Ferguson that quakes on the… Read more Audio

Two defendants in a high profile murder case are claiming their right to a fair trial will be compromised if one of them loses their name supression. Both have been convicted of crimes individually in… Read more Audio

The Romanian tennis player Simona Halep doesn't believe she suffers from first round nerves despite her early exit from the US open. Audio

An Auckland astrophysicist warns students to get in quick if they want a reference for their NASA applications. It comes after MBIE and NASA agreed to make the space agency's international internship… Read more Audio