Morning Report

The star of a Palmerston North retirement Village's Taylor Swift video recreation talks about being an international YouTube sensation. Audio

The threat of sea level rise is keeping Christchurch homeowners up at night. Eighteen-thousand of them deemed vulnerable were given a reprieve last year but now a new report says their houses are… Read more Audio

Some of the biggest funds in the country may consider themselves to be socially responsible investors, but an analysis shows few can actually prove it. Anusha Bradley reports. Audio

New workplace health and safety laws have had their '90 day trial' but it's still too early to say how they've changed workplaces; with WorkSafe NZ expecting it to take years to completely transform… Read more Audio

Health officials have told the Government that New Zealand stands out as having one of the worst death rates from bowel cancer in the developed world. Our Health Correspondent Karen Brown has been… Read more Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei explains why Auckland house prices need to fall by as much as 40 to 50 per cent over the long term to make them affordable for first home buyers. Audio

A specialist in the history of terrorism says there are parallels for the spate of deadly attacks by followers of Islamic State - but he says we need to go back to the late 19th century to see it. We… Read more Audio

Hillary Clinton is about to be formally nominated by the Democratic Party to be the first woman presidential candidate. After a shaky start to the convention, First Lady Michelle Obama got events back… Read more Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

NZ Post plans to drop Karitane's local store as a mail collection point, instead operating a rural delivery system. We find out why the locals are so opposed to the idea. Audio

The Government plans to rid New Zealand of possums, stoats and rats by 2050. Tim Graham talks to pest eradication experts to find out how this could be done. Audio