Morning Report

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Just as the Commerce Commission moves to tackle alleged price fixing and anti-competitive behaviour in the real estate industry, the regulator has released an easy to read set of guidelines on how it… Read more Audio

The New Zealand Super Fund and South Island based iwi-owned, Ngāi Tahu Property, have teamed up with New Ground Capital to invest $113 million in a new housing development in Auckland's upmarket… Read more Audio

Telecommunications company Spark has followed through with its promise to raise prices after the decision earlier this week setting Chorus's network line charges. Audio

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is unlikely to have been all that cheered by the reaction to the U.S. Federal Reserve's start to its long awaited tightening policy. Audio

American stocks look as if they will snap a three day winning streak; weak oil prices and soft factory data hurting. Audio

Some community groups are accusing the Auckland Council of sneaking changes to the city's Unitary Plan through the back door, after a last-minute proposal to re-zone more land for intensive housing. Audio

The High Court ruling that the Police obtained and used an unlawful warrant to raid the house of Dirty Politics journalist and author, Nicky Hager, has sparked claims there was a political motivation… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The Governor was wishing on this programme a week ago for an early Christmas present; hoping a Federal Reserve rate hike would weaken the New Zealand dollar. Audio

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has used crude language in a furious new attack on Turkey over the shooting down of a Russian combat jet last month. Our correspondent in Moscow Julia Lyubova has… Read more Audio

The Olympic rowing champion Mahe Drysdale is hopeful a solution has been found to the on-going feud between his coach Dick Tonks and Rowing New Zealand. Mahe Drysdale told RNZ sports editor Stephen… Read more Audio