Morning Report

A letter has emerged from heavy hitters in the fishing industry to the fisheries minister Stuart Nash outlining overwhelming opposition to putting cameras on board boats. Forest and Bird says it shows… Read more Audio

RNZ's Nelson-Tasman reporter Tracy Neal joins Susie Ferguson from the Richmond Emergency Coordination Centre in Nelson with the latest update on the fire Audio

On Tuesday afternoon Tasman district deputy mayor Tim King thought his Eves Valley farm was going to escape the fire. But within an hour everything had changed. He describes the scene to Guyon… Read more Audio

Fire Emergency New Zealand's incident controller John Sutton is in Nelson. He tells Guyon Espiner a lot of very valuable houses were nearly burnt down, but survived with blistered paint, after good… Read more Audio

One house has been destroyed and 182 properties have been evacuated as firefighters work round the clock to contain the huge bush fire near Nelson. It's burnt through nearly 2000 hectares and is being… Read more Audio

The Northern Districts wicketkeeper Tim Seifert says he produced the innings of his career to help the Black Caps cricketers to an 80 run win over India in the first T20 in Wellington. Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

The Prime Minister flies into Nelson today to see first-hand the extent of the fire damage across the Tasman District. One house has been destroyed, 235 properties have been evacuated, and hundreds… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

It was a fairly calm and controlled Waitangi Day at Te Tii Marae, but a Labour Maori MP is concerned that if things continue this way the national day of commemoration will become very bland. Peeni… Read more Audio

Merv Randall lives in Pidgeon Valley. He saw the fire start on Tuesday afternoon at about 1.30pm as a small plume of smoke - and then within an hour it had blown into a "full blown inferno". Despite… Read more Audio