Morning Report

The economy is expected to bottom out in the first half of this year at around 2 percent annual growth as the impact of weak dairy prices, slower construction growth, and the ever present slowdown in… Read more Audio

Lobby groups are at odds over the secrecy that enveloped the Trans Pacific Partnership talks, and whether the Government did enough to ease public mistrust about the contentious agreement. Audio

The Police are vowing not to give up trying to find the body of 27-year old Aaron Roigard who was murdered by his father in June 2014. Audio

The Labour Party says the Ministry of Social Development should not be reducing mental health funding in Canterbury. Audio

News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio

Our business editor, Gyles Beckford, is in now with what's happening in the financial world. Audio

New figures from Universities New Zealand show there are big financial returns for students of some courses, but others leave graduates worse off than people who never studied at all. Audio

Hundreds of letters and photos have been released detailing Pope John Paul the second's thirty-year friendship with a married woman. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Counselling and trauma services in Christchurch are slashed. A school and a children's hospital are hit in airstrikes in northern Syria and a man dies and a second is rescued in a boating tragedy off… Read more Audio

Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. Audio

The Australian government says it will no longer conduct annual Anzac commemoration services at Lone Pine, the scene of a rare victory for Australian troops during the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign. Audio