Morning Report for Monday 29 January 2018

8:58 AM.Today marks the 178th Anniversary of Auckland City, and with this comes the annual racing regatta on the WaitematA Harbour. More than 20 vintage tugboats are battling it out on the water, and the… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.Battlelines are being drawn over the proposed carve up of a public golf course in New Plymouth. Mayor Neil Holdom says the council could raise up to $50 million by selling off half the Fitzroy Golf… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.Threats to the safety of a New Zealand recruiter while in Solomon Islands have underlined how desperate people are to join the seasonal worker scheme. New Zealand's decade-old Recognised Seasonal… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy is the guest of honour this morning at a ceremony on a famous hill top in the Bay of Islands. It's 160 years since the Northern chiefs replaced the flagstaff at… Read more Audio

8:41 AM.Roger Federer clinched a record equalling sixth Australian Open title and his 20th Grand Slam victory in Melbourne on Sunday. The Swiss champion fought off a fierce challenge from Croatia's Marin… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A former top jockey says the Racing Minister Winston Peters' plans to build an all-weather racing track will be great for the industry. Mr Peters made the pledge at the Karaka Horse sales yesterday… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.The multi million dollar Karaka National Yearling Sales kicked off in Auckland on Sunday. It's the biggest week of the year for the thoroughbred racing industry, and this year more than 1200 horses… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.New Zealand's new permanent residents are now less skilled than five years ago because some international students are using the student visa scheme to get residence. There has been plenty of debate… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.Mayors of Queenstown Lakes District Jim Boult and Upper Hutt, Wayne Guppy, join Guyon Espiner to discuss the hot weather. Audio

8:09 AM.Residents in the Auckland suburb of Milford are asking why they have to deal with sewage flooding so often after a wastewater pipe broke yesterday. The breakage has been fixed but Residents evacuated… Read more Audio

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

7:57 AM.Four Grammy nominees will be skipping the 60th Annual awards ceremony in New York to instead play at the Laneway Festival in Auckland. The annual music event is being held in the leafy Albert Park… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.It's the location of New Zealand's worst ever air disaster and now it's going to be the location for Air New Zealand's latest safety video. The prospect has upset some of the relatives of those who… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Immigration Minister says advice showing new permanent residents are less skilled than five years ago backs the government's plan to overhaul the student visa scheme. Officials say some international… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.The sweltering heat bathing the country is showing no sign of relief today - with temperatures set to soar even higher. Wanaka smashed records over the weekend - soaring above 35 degrees celsius - and… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.A serious shortage of teachers is forcing schools to scrape the bottom of the barrel and hire people they would not normally consider. Schools begin to reopen from Monday and principals say most have… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.An unconscious teen is one of the eight people from a missing Kiribati ferry found after drifting in a dinghy in the Pacific for a week. An RNZAF Orion spotted the dinghy 300km south-east of Nauru and… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.After a reasonably positive reception at Ratana, Jacinda Ardern is heading to Waitangi on Thursday, for her first visit as Prime Minister. In an unprecedented move the Labour leader will be spending… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Our Afghanistan correspondent Bilal Sarwary says Saturday's bomb attack which killed New Zealand man Hashem Slaimankhel is just latest in a wave of attacks which mark an unprecedented level of… Read more Audio

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

6:42 AM.Residents evacuated from two Auckland houses flooded with sewage yesterday morning are unlikely to be back home before the end of the holiday weekend. A leak in a large pipeline carrying sewage saw… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.A New Zealand man killed in the Kabul car bombing has been remembered as a hard-working and caring man. On Saturday a suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed at least 100 people and wounded 235… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.Health officials have been told to look at what can be done to get more graduate nurses into jobs. The nurses union says with escalating staff shortages, all new nurses should be guaranteed placements… Read more Audio

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

6:00 AM.Kabul attack: Killed Kiwi mourned by refugee community, Kabul bombing latest in wave of brutal attacks, Unconscious baby rescued from sunken Kiribati ferry, Ardern: Waitangi visit signals a fresh… Read more Audio