Morning Report for Friday 25 August 2017

6:00 AM.Police have arrested Rollie James Heke after a two-week nationwide manhunt. The government's come up with a radical new plan to tackle Auckland's critical teacher shortage offering thousands of… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:09 AM.Police have arrested Rollie James Heke, the man at the centre of a manhunt in Waikato since a shootout with police in Morrinsville earlier this month. He was arrested in the Kaingaroa Forest township… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.The Black Ferns will be chasing their fifth women's Rugby World Cup title this Sunday morning when they play England in the final in Belfast. Coach Glenn Moore says the Black Ferns are in with a real… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.The on-again off-again saga of Tiwai Point's aluminium smelter appears to be on again - and it looks like staying open. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:39 AM.A bonus for teachers who stay more than three years at an Auckland school is being rolled out to try solve the teaching crisis in the city, but principals in poorer suburbs are worried it means… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The country's building regulator is being overhauled after being rated the worst among the 16 regulatory systems the Ministry runs. MBIE's Building Performance deputy chief executive Chris Bunny told… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.A 53-year-old Massachusetts mother has become the biggest lottery winner in US history after scooping a US$758 million (NZ$1 billion) powerball prize. She says she chose numbers based on family… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:15 AM.The government has come up with a radical new plan to tackle Auckland's critical teacher shortage offering thousands of dollars to any new graduate prepared to stay at any city school for at least… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.The All Blacks and the Wallabies will observe a minute's silence at Saturday's Bledisloe Cup match in Dunedin. Sir Colin's family will be gifted the number five jersey from the game, and the All… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.National's MP for Kaikoura, Stuart Smith, has leaked when State Highway 1 north of Kaikoura will be re-opened - on December 15. But the New Zealand Transport Agency is not confirming or denying the… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Peter Dunne's shock exit this week has forced both National and Labour to completely re-evaluate their strategies in the contest for the Ohariu electorate. Audio

7:45 AM.It's been a turbulent week in the election campaign with Peter Dunne's departure and the pre-fiscal update. RNZ political editor Jane Patterson has been in the thick of it and joins us to review the… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.The Wallabies have made just minor tweaks to the squad to face the All Blacks in tomorrow night's second Bledisloe Cup test. Audio

7:54 AM.Farmers are grumbling officials have been too slow to react to the outbreak of the cow disease mycoplasma bovis. RNZ rural reporter Alexa Cook has been talking to farmers. Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:11 AM.Schools in Auckland struggling to attract teachers because of the city's notoriously high housing costs have been thrown a lifeline by the Minister of Education, Nikki Kaye. Auckland Primary… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.It's been a week of more Jacindamania and tax talk. We're joined by commentators Fran O'Sullivan and Bryce Edwards for a review of the election campaign. Audio

8:28 AM.The Green Party wants to spend the next decade building light rail to Wellington Airport. Greens transport spokeswoman, Julie-Anne Genter, joins us with the details. Audio

8:52 AM.The long legal battle over plans to land bigger jets at Wellington airport without expanding its safety zone has reached the Supreme Court. RNZ reporter Michael Cropp discusses all the circuits and… Read more Audio