Morning Report

The New Zealand 49er sailors Blair Tuke and Peter Burling are assured of gold in Rio before the medal race has even been run. Burling's mentor, Gary Smith tells Morning Report today's racing has been… Read more Audio

The yachting Olympians are the latest to win medals. Sam Meech has won bronze in the laser class to win New Zealand's first sailing medal in Rio. Blair Tuke and Peter Burling are guaranteed a gold in… Read more Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

A Whangarei children's amusement centre has offered an olive branch to the community after a row over the use of a bouncy slide by a girl who can't walk. Audio

Businesses are now spending money to have Pokemon show up at their premises as a way to get more customers through the door. Audio

Trade Me head of job, Jeremy Wade, says the majority of all job ads are only online. Audio

Housing economist, Shamubeel Eaqub, wants a rethink about how inflation is measured. He says the consumer price index does not include house price inflation, and that's a problem. Audio

Labour has accused the government of interference in Statistics NZ, but the Government's Statistician has completely rejected the claim. Audio

Dairy prices have had the biggest increase so far this year at the latest global auction overnight. Federated Farmers dairy chair, Andrew Hoggard says one rise is good but they need to see a trend. Audio

The New Zealand cloud storage company Mega has failed in a High Court bid to stop information about its customers being handed to the Kazakhstan government. Phil Pennington unravels the details of… Read more Audio

Elderly hard hit by the gastroenteritis bug in Havelock North. But it's not just the elderly as our reporter Eric Fyrkberg who's in Havelock North discussed. Audio

Hundreds of sick patients are still being seen by Hawke's Bay doctors....but officials think the outbreak has reached its peak.We talk to the chief medical officer of health, Mark Peterson. Audio