Morning Report

A West Auckland art programme working with vulnerable youth suffered a setback last week after all their spray can supplies were stolen. Kakano Youth Arts Collective had just created the first in a… Read more Audio

The South Island will soon have its first hospital dedicated to caring for sick or injured native birds. It is being set up at the Otago Polytechnic's School of Veterinary Nursing in partnership with… Read more Audio

The country's largest iwi-owned seafood company, Moana New Zealand, has teamed up with Mike King to talk to their 480 full time staff and hundreds of contractors - including fishers and divers - about… Read more Audio

Winston Peters will meet the families of some of the Pike River Mine victims before sitting down with National and Labour today to start coalition talks. Last year, Mr Peters said re-entering Pike… Read more Audio

A former FBI profiler, Clint Van Zandt, says the Las Vegas concert massacre was nothing but "sheer evil". He says the FBI will be relying on Stephen Paddock's girlfriend, who is in custody, to provide… Read more Audio

New Zealand's not the only country that can have protracted coalition discussions. In Germany in 2013, it took 86 days, and Chief political correspondent at Deutsche Welle TV Melinda Crane tells us… Read more Audio

After days of speculation around Winston Peter's next moves, he will meet with both National and Labour today. The New Zealand First leader isn't talking to media but has confirmed he will talk to… Read more Audio

British Prime Minister Theresa May stole the show at her ruling Conservative Party's annual conference -- but for all the wrong reasons. She coughed and spluttered through her speech and was… Read more Audio

Scientists are urging Northland landowners with kauri trees on their land to join a growing community action project to save them. Hundreds of kauri are dead or dying from Waikato to the Far North, as… Read more Audio

The Danish inventor accused of murdering a Swedish journalist will be kept in custody for four more months after a court heard that 15 stab wounds had been found on Kim Wall's mutilated body. Ms… Read more Audio