Morning Report

Wellington City Council is set to resume negotiations with Reading Cinema after a failed bid by councillors to stymie a $32 million property deal.

The council wants to buy the land the closed complex… Read more Audio

TVNZ's interim result is due out Friday morning and it may well reflect the state of broadcasting on the back of the turmoil coming out of Newshub this week.

On Wednesday, Newshub announced a… Read more Audio

The death toll from Israel's war in Gaza has now passed 30,000.

At least 100 Palestinians were reportedly killed and a further 700 injured overnight in northern Gaza when thousands of people… Read more Audio

Play resumes at 11 o'clock Friday morning on day two of the first cricket Test against Australia at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

At stumps on Thursday Australia were 279 for 9, thanks to an… Read more Audio

WorkSafe is pulling out of funding safety programmes to the tune of up to $15 million a year, skittling one in the high-risk forestry industry.

But ACC, which gives WorkSafe the money, says putting a… Read more Audio

A school leader says he's worried he won't be able to provide free school lunches for all his students next year, which he says could increase truancy at his school.

Associate education minister… Read more Audio

Among the mishaps that might be blamed on a Leap year, fuel pump outages don't rank highly.

But that's what happened on Thursday, February 29, when a software glitch stopped self-service stations… Read more Audio

The budget for a major upgrade to Wellington Water's treatment plant has blown out by more than $40 million.

The Te Mārua Water Treatment Plant supplies 45 percent of the Wellington region's water… Read more Audio

It's now illegal for anyone in New Zealand to support Hamas.

The government is now in step with its Five Eyes partners designating the political arm of Hamas a terrorist entity.

The designation… Read more Audio

It's now a criminal offence in this country to support Hamas.

The government's designated the political wing of Hamas as a terrorist entity; it made the same ruling about the group's military wing… Read more Audio

Emergency department doctors say they have no idea if there will be enough security guards when they turn up for work on Friday.

The government paid for 200 extra guards in EDs over summer as part of… Read more Audio