Morning Report

Craig Foster, a former Australian national football captain and TV host who spearheaded the campaign to free Hakeem al-Araibi, an Australian footballer and refugee, has slammed FIFA, high profile… Read more Audio

Contact Energy says going carbon free will be a long and tough journey. Briscoe Group defies soft retail trend. Local ethical investment firm Pathfinder being taken over by British firm. Global… Read more Audio

A mother who gives her son cannabis for his violent seizures is terrified he'll be without medicine after what growers call a massive aerial cull by police. Medical cannabis campaigners say upwards of… Read more Audio

A mother whose teenager has painful benign bone tumours in two parts of her body is desperately hoping district health boards and junior doctors will settle their dispute soon. Junior doctors are… Read more Audio

A Wakefield resident who was evacuated from her property for four days, says she wasn't sure if she'd ever make it home. Thousands of people in the area were given the all clear to return to their… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

An early look at the day's business news and a catch up on overnight action on global markets.

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Northland's Transport Committee chair John Bain says he's not going to step down just to keep Shane Jones happy. The New Zealand First minister says Mr Bain keeps pushing for a four-lane highway to be… Read more Audio

Firefighting crews expect to remain on the ground in Nelson for at least the rest of the month. They say the fire is yet to be contained and while evacuated Wakefield residents were allowed to return… Read more Audio

Australian footballer and refugee Hakeem al-Araibi will return to Australia within the next 24 hours, after an extradition case against him in Thailand was dropped. Audio

Top stories this morning... Junior doctors walk off the job again this morning for a two-day strike Wakefield residents are back home but the fight against the big Nelson fire is far from over… Read more Audio

Despite the odds being stacked against them, three dotterel chicks have managed to make it through the peak summer period on one of Auckland's busiest beaches. It's just the second time New Zealand… Read more Audio