Morning Report

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

The Paradise papers have this morning revealed the world's most profitable firm, Apple, has a secretive tax structure that enable it to avoid billions in taxes. They reveal how Apple sidestepped a… Read more Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Just two New Zealand horses remain in today's Melbourne Cup field after two others were scratched at the weekend. The cup's oldest horse, Who Shot The Barman, was taken out of the field late on Sunday… Read more Audio

The new Labour-led Government scraps National's controversial data-for-funding plan, calling it dangerous and unnecessary. The plan would've required social service providers to hand over personal… Read more Audio