Morning Report

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The Chief Families Commissioner is welcoming the restructuring of his organisation saying it will remove confusion about what it actually does. Audio

The aged care industry is warning more rest-home providers will go out of business if the government doesn't make it a more attractive sector to invest in. Audio

The Primary School Teachers Union says the government's trying to soften the blow on schools after it announced that those hit the hardest by plans to increase class sizes, will be helped through the… Read more Audio

The mayor of Waimate says the local community is struggling to come to terms with the deaths of a man and a woman in a remote part of the district which have prompted the police to launch a homicide… Read more Audio

Three New Zealanders - believed to be children - are amongst 19 people dead, after fire erupted at a shopping mall in Qatar's capital city, Doha. Audio

The Liquor Licensing Authority has bowed to public pressure and clamped down on a bottle store in the Porirua suburb of Cannons Creek. Audio

Zespri is refusing to comment after media reports suggesting one of its former directors has admitted to illegally injecting vines with antibiotics to combat PSA. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

The former Police Commissioner, Howard Broad is standing by the decision to charge the Urewera Four. Audio

The victim of the convicted rapist and former police officer, Brad Shipton, says the last thing she wants to be dealing with is the possibility he might talk to the media. Audio