Morning Report

The children's commissioner appears in front of the select committee hearing. Audio

Better ante-natal care, the role of fathers, and an inquiry into the health risks of mobile phones are all ideas that have been put to a Parliamentary inquiry on child abuse and children's health. Audio

The Transport Agency has taken a scalpel to the budget for one of its trumpeted roads of national significance, saying it will now spend 100 million dollars upgrading a section of State Highway 1… Read more Audio

The head of the structural engineering firm that supervised the design of the Canterbury Television building appeared yesterday at the Royal Commission into the Canterbury Earthquakes. Audio

Stephen Gale started his new job as Telecommunications Commissioner yesterday on the same day the British-based mobile phone provider Vodafone announced it had bought TelstraClear. Audio

The trial of the England footballer, John Terry, has been told that he used "straightforward racial abuse" towards another player during a match last October. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Polytechnics are warning the government's decision to open millions of dollars of their funding to competition from the private sector could be the death knell for some institutions. Audio

At least nine people have been killed in the Mont Blanc mountains in what French police are calling one of the worst single disasters in the French Alps. Audio

The horrific car crash which claimed the lives of 4 Argentineans near Mt Ruapehu on Wednesday night has prompted calls for people to take extra care when driving in the popular holiday area. Audio

Whangarei's departing police chief is being criticised by his own union for airing what it calls dirty laundry in public. Audio

An urgent inquiry into water rights has heard Mighty River Power is the wrong state asset to be opened up to private investors first because it's too tangled up in the water ownership debate. Audio