Morning Report

Domestic violence, youth suicide linked - social workers, Panic on Air NZ flight as plane circles Tauranga for hours, US-Iran: Pompeo threatens 'strongest sanctions in history', NZ teens in Australia… Read more Audio

Nurses who can prescribe medicines and make diagnoses are putting themselves forward as one way to solve a looming lack of doctors in rural areas. More than 40 percent of country doctors are due to… Read more Audio

News the government won't be building a mega-prison is being met with cautious optimism by the criminal justice advocacy group JustSpeak. The previous government had planned to expand Waikeria prison… Read more Audio

There are three newcomers to the All Blacks squad named yesterday, but it's possible that only one of them may get some game time in the three-test series against France next month. Loose forwards… Read more Audio

A community in northern Hawke's Bay is in shock after vandals destroyed 20 or so headstones at a small cemetery. Kaye Wesley posted a Facebook video of her visit to the Raupunga urupa on the weekend… Read more Audio

Former Labour Cabinet Minister John Tamihere says he can't understand how Māori took a back seat in the government's priorities when there are 13 Māori MPs in the government. "The Families package is… Read more Audio

Dropping enrolments and multi-million-dollar deficits at some institutions have been revealed in the polytechnic annual reports. The institutes have begun publishing their 2017 results and they show… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

A course that's proved life changing for a handful of young people on the dole is about to be expanded. In April the Department of Conservation took on ten young unemployed with the aim of getting… Read more Audio

The general manager of a Queenstown tourism company says he and his staff are devastated after a rafter was swept away and died. The man was one of a group of six Australians whose raft overturned in… Read more Audio

Newly released documents show multiple serious failings by senior officials at Middlemore Hopsital who pushed ahead with building a big lecture theatre instead of more operating theatres. They also… Read more Audio

Nineteen people have died in the last two years while fleeing from police - the latest over the weekend was a 15-year-old riding in the boot of a car. Police Minister Stuart Nash told us he backed the… Read more Audio