Morning Report

More now on the Law Commission's take on what should happen to a couple's assets when they split up. The commission has detailed eight proposals to change the Property Relationships Act that it will… Read more Audio

Renters have won their campaign against crippling letting fees. Parliament passed legislation yesterday that will ban the fees from next month. The Housing Minister Phil Twyford says this could put up… Read more Audio

Despite the latest cold blast most of New Zealand is in for an early summer with temperatures expected to exceed 30 degrees this month. NIWA has released its three month outlook and it's expected to… Read more Audio

Former residents of the botched Bella Vista housing development are overjoyed they've reached the end of what has been a long and gruelling saga. The Tauranga City Council signed off on shoddy… Read more Audio

An immigration consultant who represented Karel Sroubek says he's puzzled by Minister Iain Lees-Galloway's decision not to deport him back to the Czech Republic. Sroubek was jailed two years ago, for… Read more Audio

Having initially refused to go, the chair of Cricket Australia David Peever has resigned in the wake of a scathing review of the board's governance and culture. Audio

Tales of a goat-man creeping around a cemetery, and children's swimming competitions in Lyttelton Port's dry dock are just some of the stories being collected for a project which will offer a guided… Read more Audio

Karel Sroubek, the convicted drug-smuggler who's at the centre of a political furor over being allowed to stay in the country, has had many brushes with the law. Sroubek arrived in New Zealand in 2003… Read more Audio

The Law Commission says it's time to end the simple solution of splitting property equally when a marriage breaks up. It suggests if one partner owned a home before the relationship began, only the… Read more Audio

Eastern Porirua is set to receive a $1.5 billion facelift as part of a new 25-year plan to revitalise the rundown suburb. A partnership with local iwi Ngāti Toa, it involves the redevelopment of… Read more Audio

Indonesian divers are now searching for the second black box from the Lion 737 which crashed into the Java Sea earlier this week killing all 189 on board. The first 'black box' flight data recorder… Read more Audio

The Chief Crown-Treaty negotiator is being accused of acting in bad faith in dealing with treaty settlements. Rick Barker is in charge of negotiating and concluding Treaty settlements on behalf of the… Read more Audio