Morning Report for Wednesday 10 March 2021

6:10 AM.An environmental group says a new High Court decision risks setting a precedent that could significantly harm environmentally important areas.

The High Court has upheld a Board of Inquiry decision… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.A Canterbury regional councillor wants the Government to get on board with a radical proposal to provide free bus travel in greater Christchurch for two years.

Mid-Canterbury councillor John Sunckell… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

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

6:38 AM.A programme intended to reduce the leading cause of death in infants has not succeeded, and deaths have actually risen.

The Ministry of Health launched a national programme to tackle Sudden… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.Large vaccination centres are due to soon be up and running around the country.

The first was opened in Auckland yesterday in a large, open, office-style building in South Auckland fitted out with… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.Team New Zealand's defence of the America's Cup begins on the Waitemata Harbour today in a best-of-13 series against Italy's Luna Rossa.

America's Cup reporter Felicity Reid spoke to veteran sailor… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.National Party co-leader and health spokesperson Shane Reti is seeking expanded access to medicinal cannabis and the licensing of "high quality" domestic production.

It comes as cannabis has again… Read more Audio

6:54 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.A government programme set up to reduce sudden deaths of babies is failing and fatalities have risen.

The Ministry of Health is privately admitting to ministers that progress is "very disappointing"… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Buckingham Palace has issued a statement on behalf of the Queen in response to Harry and Megan's interview with Oprah.

It reads "the whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.About time - that is the resounding response to the Broadcasting Standards Authority decision that it will not take any more complaints from people upset about the use of te reo Māori on air and… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.History is on Team New Zealand's side heading into their America's Cup defence against Luna Rossa on the Waitemata Harbour this week.

For four years both teams have been building towards this… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The 2020 election disaster continues to haunt the National Party, which is keeping its review into the failed campaign under wraps.

Nobody from the opposition has commented on the review but a leaked… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.For the first time since Covid-19 upended the economy, New Zealand has recorded a week in which more people have found work than lost it.

Jobseeker figures for the last week of February show 3003… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.East Otago residents will tonight find out what, if anything, authorities have learnt about the lead contamination of their water supply.

The communities of Waikouaiti, Hawksbury Village and Karitane… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.An advisory group set-up to independently review and improve the Government's Covid-19 response will be up and running by next week.

The group, chaired by Sir Brian Roche, will provide advice to the… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Negotiations between the government and New Zealand Aluminium Smelters have entered rocky territory, with frustration boiling over at the lack of information being provided by the owners of the Tiwai… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Team New Zealand are bullish about their chances of winning the America's Cup for the fourth time. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.More now on our story about the failure of a government programme set up to reduce sudden deaths of babies.

Formerly known as "cot death", sudden unexpected death in infancy - or SUDI - generally… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.The British tabloid press are under scrunity after Harry called publications 'bigoted' in their coverage of the royal pair.

The head of the British Society of Editors, Ian Murray, has denied the… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.The clouds are about to clear for New Zealand customers who can't decide which telecommunication plan best suits their needs.

Our three biggest telcos - Spark, Vodafone and 2Degrees - have agreed to… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.The waiting is over racing gets under way this afternoon on Waitemata Harbour as Team New Zealand begin their defence of the America's Cup against Italian challengers Luna Rossa.

Four years after… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.A Wellington man says the owner of a high-cost loan store tried to intimidate him in the street after he complained about the business's conduct.

.It's the latest incident in a feud between the owner… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.It's been revealed a composting business at the centre of a resource consent wrangle in Taranaki has been warned by the Commerce Commission not to mislead consumers into believing all its sites and… Read more Audio