Morning Report

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

Snow to low levels on Monday has been replaced with rain overnight with torrential rain expected for Dunedin and coastal Otago on Tuesday - winter's not quite gone in the far south just yet… Read more Audio

The AA Driving School says it's incredible people can get their driver's license in their teens and never sit another test again. With a climbing road toll and motorcyclists increasingly dying on New… Read more Audio

Auckland children with severe teeth problems who need treatment under general anaesthetic are waiting twice as long as they should be to see a dentist A report to the Auckland and Waitemata District… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Ajaz Patel claimed five wickets in his first test as New Zealand beat Pakistan by four runs on a dramatic fourth day of the opening cricket test in Abu Dhabi. It was the Black Caps closest ever… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

Veteran Dunedin broadcaster Neil Collins has died at the age of 77, just weeks after making his final appearance on Radio Dunedin. His career began at the station as a schoolboy volunteer sixty years… Read more Audio

A long-time politics professor says National has taken the practice of bombarding the government with written parliamentary questions to a new level. Over the past year National MPs have written more… Read more Audio

Taupo's mayor says businesses lost at least a million dollars as a result of yesterday's power cut, which left the popular tourist centre a ghost town. About 16,500 customers lost power for most of… Read more Audio

Children with severe and often extremely painful teeth problems are having to wait months for treatment, The battle of police uniforms at next year's Pride Parade in Auckland continues - with board… Read more Audio

A proposal to slash local journalists in Auckland has some people worrying their communities will fall off the news radar - and make their leaders unaccountable. Stuff owns 13 community papers - the… Read more Audio