Morning Report for Tuesday 28 November 2017

6:11 AM.Prince Harry has become engaged to US actor Meghan Markle. An official statement says the 33-year-old prince who is fifth-in-line to the throne and the 36-year-old Markle, best known for her role in… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.The people of Roxburgh in Central Otago are hoping rains forecast for this afternoon don't eventuate after the town was inundated on Sunday night. The flash flooding damaged a major water pipe and… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.A US quake engineer says New Zealand needs simple rules, strongly enforced, to rein in high levels of non-compliance. The construction industry has admitted that seismic restraints on the likes of… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.Prince Harry has announced he and US actor Meghan Markle are engaged to be married. Prince Harry is the fifth in line to throne. Editor of The Crown Chronicles Victoria Howard says her site crashed… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.New Zealanders stuck in Bali because of an erupting volcano could be left with large bills to cover last minute travel changes. Flights have been cancelled and the main airport on the Indonesian… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.A raft of Civil Defence emergency centres and fire stations in high-risk quake zones are substandard or can't prove they're up to scratch to withstand a big earthquake. These are meant to be among the… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.Roxburgh and Millers Flat residents will be casting a nervous eye skywards today with further rain and thunder forecast. The Central Otago towns were hit hard on Sunday when 40mm of rain fell in the… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.On Monday night in Clyde, about 45km north of Roxburgh, Fire and Emergency were called out between 8-9pm after lightning storms brought heavy rain. Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan tells us people are… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.National is labelling the new Government secretive and disorganised, saying it is clearly back-sliding on its pledge to be open and transparent. The Prime Minister says she will not release notes made… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.The National Party says it's taken the new government just a matter of weeks to go back on its early promise to be open and transparent. Yesterday Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she won't be… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Central Auckland came to a standstill last night as Tongan league fans converged in yet another protest after their world cup semifinal loss. Audio

7:53 AM.Scientists say they have grave fears Auckland's iconic pohutukawa trees will fall victim to the creeping myrtle rust infection. Another case of myrtle rust has been found in the city, this time on… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Consumers were stung with a $187 million bill last year to cover the cost of processing credit card payments. Retailers are asking for regulation of the system to help bring down costs, but the banks… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.An independent review of the Auckland Council's efforts to improve outcomes for the city's Māori has found little improvement since the last review three years ago. The consultancy PWC was… Read more Audio

8:31 AM.John Tamihere is the chief executive of Te Whānau O Waipareira and a former member of the Independent Māori Statutory Board. He joins us with his reaction to the results of the Auckland Council… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.David Rothery is a Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University he says The volcano Agung might at last be delivering the large eruption that has been feared for several weeks. Audio

8:44 AM.Wellingtonians are being urged to conserve water after a recent dry spell caught the city's water supply management team off guard. Residents have been told they can water their gardens only every… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.One of the government's top scientists is being blasted by conservationists for talking up the environmental benefits of irrigation. The chief scientist at the Environmental Protection Authority… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Rising sea levels are bringing new worries about a nuclear waste dump in the Marshall Islands, about 5000km north of New Zealand. In the late 1970s, Runit Island, on the remote Enewetak Atoll, was the… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.A new law journal is hoping to bridge the gender divide in our country's legal system. Te Aho Kawe Kaupapa Ture a nga Wahine is the first academic publication in New Zealand solely dedicated to… Read more Audio