Morning Report for Monday 29 July 2019

6:00 AM.Auckland Council is spending almost 2 million dollars fighting itself in two Environment Court cases.Hundreds are continuing to protest at Ihumatao despite housing construction being put on hold… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The two-time Olympic equestrian champion Sir Mark Todd has announced his retirement from the sport. Audio

6:08 AM.Health Minister David Clark intends to outline his plan to improve cancer services in the coming weeks, as National unveils a policy to establish a new national agency.

Its leader, Simon Bridges… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.A massive manhunt is still underway in Canada as police - and now the military - search for two teenagers suspected of murdering three people.

Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been on… Read more Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:40 AM.Auckland mayor Phil Goff says it's a sad reality that making good decisions can end up costing ratepayers a small fortune in legal bills.

The council's development company Panuku, is embroiled in… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Hundreds of people continue to occupy the whenua in Māngere to stop a special housing development from being built on ancestral land near Auckland airport.

On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Federated Farmers says a campaign being launched this morning to highlight animal welfare and environmental problems caused by winter grazing is another attack on the industry.

With winter grazing… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.New Zealand's greatest equestrian Sir Mark Todd is retiring from the sport a second time and is adamant there will be no second comeback. Audio

7:10 AM.The legal bills are $1.9 million and counting as Auckland Council effectively fights itself in two court cases.

The council's development company Panuku has been taking the council to the Environment… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Protesters at Ihumātao are taking time off work to continue their occupation, despite construction on the disputed site being put on hold.

The fight to protect the 32 hectare land block in South… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Māori rights activist and former MP, Hone Harawira, was at Ihumātao at the weekend, He speaks with Susie Ferguson. Read more Audio

7:23 AM.National has put the Health Minister on the back foot, unveiling a plan to combat cancer weeks before the government is set to announce its own strategy.

National leader Simon Bridges used the… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.The Chief Human Rights Commissioner is urging the Royal Commission into the Christchurch mosque attacks to boost its efforts to include the Muslim community in its work.

Paul Hunt is also encouraging… Read more Audio

7:32 AM.New Zealand's greatest equestrian Sir Mark Todd has announced his retirement.

Todd, 63, won two individual gold medals from the Olympic Games, four Badminton titles, five Burghley crowns and two… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.The National Party has committed to killing cancer in New Zealand - and it might stand alongside the government to do that.

At the party's annual conference yesterday, leader Simon Bridges announced… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Questions are being asked about the $2 million blowout of a roofing and maintenance project at the New Plymouth District Council.

Nicknamed the "purple palace", the council building has been swathed… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.The All Blacks blew a 16-9 lead as South Africa scored in the final seconds to snatch a 16-16 draw from the jaws of defeat in Wellington at the weekend, with the hosts producing another scrappy… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.All Black lock Brodie Retallick dislocated his shoulder during the 16-16 draw against South Africa.

Susie Ferguson speaks with New Zealand Football's sports physician, Mark Fulcher, about Retallick's… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The equestrian great Sir Mark Todd says the only regret he has from his career is that he wasn't able to win an individual world title. Audio

8:11 AM.The Cancer Society is welcoming the National Party's promise to form a cancer agency and to invest more in drugs to combat the disease, if they're voted into government next year.

National leader… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.RNZ political editor Jane Patterson was at the National Party conference at the weekend. She talks to Gyles Beckford about the party's cancer policy announcement and leader Simon Bridges' performance.

8:16 AM.Has Jacinda Ardern learned the lessons from Labour's mishandling of the foreshore and seabed, or will Ihumātao loosen her party's grip on the seven Māori seats?

Hundreds of people continue to occupy… Read more Video, Audio

8:20 AM.Emails between the Office of Ethnic Communities and the Islamic Women's Council show the Office effectively ignored the Council's concerns about violence against Muslims for more than two years.

Days… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Car enthusiasts watched their most prized possession's be destroyed by a road roller at a meet-up in Upper Hutt over the weekend.

The police were called to Eastern Hutt Road in Silverstream in the… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Four people have died in a crash in the Kaingaroa Forest. With more information we're joined by RNZ reporter Tom Furley. Read more Audio

8:42 AM.A New York Times investigation has found further faults with Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration charged with regulating the industry.

At issue is the troubled Boeing 737 Max and a new… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.A campaign to highlight environmental and animal welfare issues around winter cropping on farms has been launched this morning.

Winter cropping, or winter grazing is where cattle are strip fed a… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.There are a lot of things New Zealanders can look forward to when they turn 16 - among them driving, leaving school and being paid the minimum wage.

And now buying an energy drink from Countdown can… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.The TAB is refunding $44,000 of bets made on Saturday night's National Rugby League game between the Warriors and the Parramatta Eels in Sydney, which the Warriors controversially lost, 22-24.

The… Read more Audio