Morning Report

On Friday evening Wellington will be host to the country's first ever 'Ginger Gathering' - celebrating New Zealand's redheads. With prizes like best ginger beard and palest ginger, the event aims to… Read more Video, Audio

More and more women are playing rugby - about 25,000 of them at the last count. But the big challenge ahead of the next Women's Rugby World Cup will be getting them to watch it. At a vote in Dublin on… Read more Audio

The talk station Radio Live is to be cut back and jobs are likely to go.

In a memo to staff, the chief news officer for Mediaworks, which owns the station said the simulcast with TV3's breakfast and… Read more Audio

Sir Peter Gluckman, former chief science advisor for the Prime Minister, is calling for new debate on the future of genetic modification in agriculture. Science and Innovation reporter Charlie Dreaver… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

An international flight exhibition by aerospace giant Boeing is opening for the first time in New Zealand this weekend. Named Above and Beyond, the exhibition has been travelling the world since 2015… Read more Audio

Dancer, choreographer and writer Douglas Wright was a genius - and paid a price for it. That's the view of filmmaker Leanne Pooley who made the 2003 documentary Haunting Douglas. Wright died on… Read more Audio

An extended blackout restricting election coverage in Fiji will end on Saturday night. It was supposed to have been lifted at the close of polls on Wednesday. Koroi Hawkins joins us now from Suva. Audio

A plan to ban begging and rough sleeping in Tauranga is one step closer after a city council vote. The ban is proposed for Tauranga, Mount Maunganui and Greerton CBDs and will prohibit begging and… Read more Audio

Primary school teachers end their week of rolling strikes in the Wellington region on Friday. The one-day strikes have closed more than a thousand primary and intermediate schools since they started… Read more Audio

The White Ferns are playing for pride at the T20 World Cup this morning with only a mathmatical chance that they can make the play-offs after two straight losses. Audio

Police are still not able to say whether they will take part in the Pike River recovery operation. The re-entry plan states that officers will help forensically examine the mine's drift and recover… Read more Audio