Morning Report for Thursday 2 July 2020

6:06 AM.The Warriors have drawn up a list of potential loan players if three of their own players decide to return home. Read more Audio

6:12 AM.The US has bought almost all the world's upcoming supply of Covid-19 treatment drug remdesivir. More than 10.3 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported world wide.

Remdesivir which was originally… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.A shipment of 14 metric tonnes of amphetamines - with a market value of one billion Euros - has been confiscated in the Italian port of Salerno.

Italian police tracked three suspect shipping… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.Advocates working with young homeless people say the situation is at "crisis point", and it's likely to worsen in the wake of Covid-19.

Maanaki Rangatahi - a collective of six groups - is petitioning… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

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

6:37 AM.Principals say the Covid-19 border restrictions will stop them hiring foreign teachers to fill next year's vacancies.

They say they are still struggling with a shortage of good teachers and they want… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.A trust fund is being set up to look after the health of the Waikato River as authorities agree in principle for Auckland to take more water from it.

The agreement is an interim measure to help ease… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:06 AM.Peter Fulton has stepped down as Black Caps batting coach to take up the role as head coach of the Canterbury men's team. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Principals want an exemption for foreign teachers because they are worried the Covid-19 border restrictions will leave them short-staffed next year.

They say there is no guarantee the lack of… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.Wild weather has been lashing Wellington's south coast , with gusts of up to 100-kilometres an hour, and six-metre swells are expected.

The worst weather coincided with the high tide in the early… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Auckland City Council has been granted an extra 75 million litres of water a day from the Waikato river in an emergency meeting.

Yesterday parties agreed in principle to supply the water - now 250… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.A man whose two nephews died working in East Coast forests says if Worksafe thinks it is doing a good job, he hates to think what 'hopeless' looks like.

Families are speaking up about their… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.A piece of possibly unexploded ordinance turned up in Whanganui yesterday evening.

Workers at the Sarjeant art gallery, which is being redeveloped, found a cannonball while excavating the site early… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.Three New Zealand sailors who are at the centre of a repatriation mission to the Falkland Islands have been arrested after a bar-brawl on the island.

A Sanford fishing boat spent 25 days getting to… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.A woman who was sexually harassed in the Air Force by a sergeant known as "Groper Roper" is allowed to start a new claim for compensation.

She will also no longer have to pay costs as ordered… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.Hong Kongers in New Zealand are worried they could be arrested if they return home because they have attended political demonstrations here.

Beijing's new national security law is now in place. It… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.'Say Nope to Dope' campaigners have come under fire for their 'affiliation' with a powerful US anti-cannabis lobbying group.

Both groups - SAM and SAM-NZ - share the same name.

SAM also provides… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff says the investigations and allegations around the America's Cup won't derail the event.

Team New Zealand has denied any wrongdoing in the way it has handled public funds.

8:06 AM.The Black Ferns Sevens coach Corey Sweeney says the playing group are committed to trying to win gold at next year's Tokyo Olympics. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.School principals are arguing for foreign teachers to be allowed into the country, warning that they face a staff shortage if an exemption to Covid-19 border restrictions isn't made.

That shortfall… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.Thousands of whānau are bracing themselves for winter with about one in three Māori living in cold, damp and mouldy homes. 

Housing advocates say that will mean thousands of Māori tamariki will end… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.The government plans to plough $3 billion into infrastructure projects across the country, in a bid to power New Zealand's Covid-19 recovery.

Some of the initial projects that will be funded from the… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.US President Donald Trump's been rage tweeting overnight. He's calling the reports that Russia put a bounty on US soldiers lives in Afghanistan "just another HOAX".

Another tweet says he will veto an… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:30 AM.NIWA has recorded a nearly 12-metre wave off the coast of Banks Peninsula this morning.

The Southerly blast is generating huge swells, which are heading up the East coast of the North Island.

… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.Hollywood is knocking at New Zealand's door, as the Government announces a $230 million recovery package for the screen industry.

The package comes in the wake of Covid-19, and is designed to… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.The tourism industry remains in the dark about where millions of dollars collected through the international visitor levy will go.

Most overseas visitors are charged the $35 fee through visa… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Hospitality business owners in Wellington are calling for more major events put on in the city, to bring people into the city, spending money, and helping them survive and thrive.

The council says… Read more Audio

8:58 AM.All Black great Dan Carter will turn out for his Canterbury club this weekend.

The Southbridge club has confirmed that the 112 test veteran will start at first-five in their home game against West… Read more Audio