Morning Report

A district councillor from Te Anau says the council needs to bite the bullet and treat wastewater from the town before pumping it away. The Southland District Council has resource consent to pump the… Read more Audio

A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

Passengers killed as train derails near Seattle, Surgery tourists warned after patient's death, Ex-cop jailed for life after guilty plea for wife's murder, 'Oil companies need to be history' - Russel… Read more Audio

A stingray at a Wairarapa beach has put a diver in hospital with a leg wound. He's now in a stable condition, after friends helped him into their four-wheel-drive and drove him to a nearby house… Read more Audio

The country's copyright law is to get it's first overhaul in a decade amid calls for a crackdown on what some call New Zealand's rampant piracy problem. Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi confirmed last… Read more Audio

A Sydney man has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police on charges relating to the supply of weapons of mass destruction, as well as breaching trade sanctions against North Korea. The… Read more Audio

A raging California wildfire has become the state's third-largest on record, with more devastation possible from a resurgence of the harsh winds that have fueled the deadly blaze since the beginning… Read more Audio

The Pentagon has just admitted it ran a secret UFO investigation programme for five years until 2012. The Department of Defense's "X-Files" operation, was known by the less catchy title of the… Read more Audio

The growing number of children with special needs has prompted the Education Review Office to conduct a national review of the issue next year. Groups including the Principals Federation and the… Read more Audio

The hotter than usual December weather has seen swimmers flocking to beaches up and down New Zealand, and that's meant an early start to the summer too for the country's surf lifesavers. Yesterday a… Read more Audio