Morning Report

Two hundred extra nurses are being employed at public hospitals in a long-awaited move to improve staffing. It follows a pay deal in August that included government funding for an extra 500 nurses… Read more Audio

ANZ New Zealand has posted a record net profit after tax of nearly $2 billion. That's a 12 percent increase on last year's profit. ANZ is the country's biggest home and business lender as well as the… Read more Audio

After almost a year and a lot of soul-searching, Dane Coles is set to make his All Blacks return this weekend. The All Blacks name their team to play Japan in Tokyo on Thursday afternoon and it will… Read more Audio

Indonesian rescuers believe they have detected the signal of the black box from the Lion Air Boeing 737 that crashed on Monday killing all 189 people on board. The 737 Max crashed into the sea shortly… Read more Audio

Wednesday was a jam-packed final day for Prince Harry and Megan Markle on the final stop of their New Zealand royal tour in Rotorua. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex embraced Māori culture at a local… Read more Video, Audio

A survivor of past sex abuse by two priests at a Wellington college is demanding their portraits be taken down from the school's walls. Wellington's Catholic diocese admits one of the two, Father Fred… Read more Audio

Istanbul's chief prosecutor says Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate last month. He says it was a premedidated killing and Mr Khashoggi's body was… Read more Audio

National says the Immigration Minister should resign over his bungled handling of a decision to allow a convicted drug smuggler from the Czech Republic to stay in New Zealand. In an embarrassing turn… Read more Audio

Praise has been flooding in for the two mountain guides who were killed in an avalanche on Mount Hicks in Aoraki Mt Cook National park on Wednesday. Wolfgang Maier and Martin Hess died while returning… Read more Audio

Anne Braun-Elwert from the mountain guide company Alpine Recreation was a good friend of both Wolfgang Maier and Martin Hess. They'd both worked for her Tekapo-based business. She told RNZ Otago… Read more Audio

The Black Caps cricketers are chasing 149 to win the opening T20 against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. Audio

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