Morning Report

US President Donald Trump says it's time to act with urgency and great determination toward North Korea. But speaking in Seoul last night, something was missing. It was the name-calling that he's… Read more Audio

Ferocious weather lashed parts of the country overnight. Huge gusts of wind caused power cuts on much of the West Coast and around the top and east of the South Island. There are power lines down… Read more Audio

A Nelson home-owner says it's taken more than a year and thousands of dollars to get a consent hearing to build a small rock wall outside his waterfront home. The city council's processing of resource… Read more Audio

As structural engineers continue to look into exactly how city high-rises perform in earthquakes, they're also calling for designers to take a precautionary approach to concrete floor slabs which have… Read more Audio

The World Meteorological Organisation says 2017 is set to be the warmest year without an El Niño occurence, since temperatures were first recorded in the late 1800s. There've been heatwaves in Chile… Read more Audio

Saudi Arabian banks have reportedly started to freeze the accounts of those arrested in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's anti-corruption purge. Eleven princes, four sitting ministers and dozens of… Read more Audio

Today the fastest horse over 3.2 kilometres will win just under 4 million New Zealand dollars at the Melbourne Cup. This year there's only two New Zealand horses left in the race after the… Read more Audio

The daughter of a woman who took her own life says she's been left with no support, and has had to forgo a funeral for her mum as a result. Others who have lost family members to suicide say they also… Read more Audio

Immigration officials are being warned there'll be more overstayers if the department doesn't reverse its decision to close public counters and make people apply for visas online. Immigration experts… Read more Audio