Morning Report

Morning Report has obtained a letter from Fonterra revealing the hardball tactics the dairy giant is employing against its maintenance contractors as it seeks to slash costs. Whanganui MP Chester… Read more Audio

Power is out from Kaikohe in Northland down to Titirangi in Auckland. Vector is reporting about five thousand are without power in Auckland after the city was battered with high winds overnight… Read more Audio

Significant rainfall overnight has caused flooding to parts of the Tasman District. Nelson Tasman civil defence's duty officer is Roger Ball Audio

A state of Emergency has been declared and up to 200 people, many of them tourists, have been evacuated from Franz Josef, after the Waiho river breached its bank last night. Rob Jewell is the chair of… Read more Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Wall Street weaker today - investors trying to gauge the path of interest rate hikes in the US. Audio

Dunedin based automation specialist Scott Technology has reported a lift in its first half profit and is looking to expand its operations through the takeover of a German engineering company. Audio

Keith Woodford, an honorary professor of Agri-Food Systems at Lincoln University joins Jonathan Mitchell to talk about the result. Audio

The dairy co-operative, Fonterra, says it's confident it can reduce debt and still make the near billion-dollar-a-year investments required to expand production of value-added dairy products. Audio

Fonterra just posted a $409 million profit, and it's being accused of corporate bullying by one of its suppliers. Audio

Power is out across parts of the North Island from Kaikohe down to Titirangi. Ardmore Vector is reporting about five thousand are that thousands are without power in Auckland after the city was… Read more Audio

Up to 200 people have been evacuated from tourist accommodation on the West Coast after the Waiho River breached its bank near Franz Josef just before midnight. Adriana Weber has the details. Audio