Morning Report for Wednesday 26 May 2021

6:13 AM.Scientists are warning that 'zombie fires' are becoming more frequent as global temperatures rise.

Zombie fires are wildfires that smoulder underground for months, even in freezing cold conditions… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.An independent review of air quality at a controversial composting and worm farming business in Taranaki has found there is most likely a relationship between illness in the community and odours… Read more Audio

6:24 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

6:25 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:38 AM.The Resident Doctors' Association is appalled by what appears to be a significant breach of Waikato DHB data.

A group claiming responsibility for a ransomware attack against the DHB claim they have… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.Turmoil continues in Samoa. Samoa's Attorney-General yesterday filed a complaint with the Supreme Court, claiming Monday's swearing in of the FAST party was unconstitutional.

This came after FAST was… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.The exiled Belarussian opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has called for further hard hitting sanctions that will isolate the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko.

Tikhanovskaya said… Read more Audio

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

7:08 AM.There's widespread alarm about what will become of highly sensitive patient and staff information that hackers claim to have stolen from Waikato DHB.

Hospitals in the region have been crippled for… Read more Audio

7:11 AM.Across the Tasman, health authorities in Melbourne are working hard to contain a growing cluster of Covid-19 cases.

New restrictions came into force in the city last night as the number of cases… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.More Covid-19 cases have popped up in Melbourne, prompting the government to suspend the travel bubble with NZ.

A modelling expert says there could be a large number of cases in Victoria that are yet… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Random checks of MIQ hotels in February and March found staff shortages, returnees left to mingle in a lift lobby and bus drivers not wearing, or refusing to wear, all the required PPE.

The Ministry… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Seriously ill cancer patients could end up being sent to Australia for treatment as the Waikato DHB continues to try and get back online after last week's cyber attack.

Currently they are being sent… Read more Audio

7:33 AM.Samoa's incoming Prime Minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has dismissed accusations thrown at her FAST party by her predecessor, Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi.

FAST's 26 MPs were swore in Monday on the… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.The number of Covid-19 cases in Melbourne is rising.

Yesterday another four community infections were recorded, bringing the total number detected in Melbourne's northern suburbs over the past two… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.People across the United States are marking one year since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police.

Floyd was killed by then-police officer Derek Chauvin, who held his knee on the… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.An independent review of air quality at a controversial composting and worm farming business in Taranaki has found there is most likely a relationship between illness in the community and odours… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.If our skies are clear tonight, New Zealanders should get the best view in the world of a red supermoon.

Also known as a blood moon, a supermoon is actually a total lunar eclipse that occurs at the… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Northern Spirit captain Brooke Halliday has been rewarded with a White Ferns contract after a breakout cricket season. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Patients and staff at Waikato hospital fear what will become of highly sensitive personal information that hackers claim to have stolen from Waikato DHB.

It's entire system crashed a week ago due to… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.The police budget is down by more than $90 million from last year, a move the National Party is calling atrocious.

The government is defending the numbers, saying some funds are still under… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.The Police, RNZ and NZME have succeeded in being able to reveal the identity of a man who planted a camera in a gym changing room.

Phillip Barnes who at the time was general manager of the Crown… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.The current ski season has operators feeling optimistic - it appears Australians are planning to fill up the slopes.

Bookings of baches and houses in ski areas is already double what it was in 2019… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:37 AM.Fiji's Covid-19 cases are rising, with 10 new cases yesterday - three of them at the country's military headquarters.

There are currently 109 active cases - three are in ICU.

The military… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The Minister of Education and his Ministry are being taken to court over the rights of intellectually disabled children to go to school.

The advocacy group IHC says the children are being… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.A community group is working to support whanau of prisoners displaced after the Waikeria uprising.

People Against Prisons Aotearoa says more than 200 people were transferred to prisons around the… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Many gardeners were horrified last week when a 80-year old tenant at a Christchurch social housing property had her garden ripped up by authorities without warning.

Since then offers of help to… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Star gazers are looking forward to a triple-layered celestial event tonight.

Astronomers say it's rare for a full, super, and blood moon to coincide, and are hopeful the weather will give the best… Read more Audio