Morning Report

Thirty seven people have applied for compensation from a fund set up to help those with long-term illnesses arising from last year's campylobacter outbreak in Havelock North. The Hastings District… Read more Audio

About half of the population on the Vanuatu island of Ambae is being evacuated because of a continuing volcanic eruption. The volcano in the centre of the island at the island's centre has been… Read more Audio

Social media features heavily this year in the hunt for our native pigeon, the kereru. The annual Great Kereru Count has begun and continues until next weekend - encouraging people all over the… Read more Audio

Exit polls for the German election suggest Angela Merkel will be re-elected for her fourth term as Chancellor. Her conservative CDU party gained the most votes, coming in at around 32.5 percent… Read more Audio

Chloe Swarbrick, 23, is heading to Parliament today, as the country's youngest MP since Marilyn Waring won the Raglan seat in 1975. Ms Swarbrick came in at seventh on the Green Party list, and has… Read more Audio

David Seymour's political benefactors the National Party once again delivered him and ACT their safe seat of Epsom on Saturday night. But forced to try for a deal with Mr Seymour's arch political… Read more Audio

Politicians will be returning to Wellington today with no clear result out of Saturday's general election. Former Greens co-leader Russel Norman, former Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove and PR consultant… Read more Audio

New Zealand won't know the final election result until October 7 when all the special votes are counted. This year there have been more than ever before - 384,000, or 15 percent of the total… Read more Audio