Morning Report for Tuesday 15 June 2021

6:11 AM.The demand for more police to work at managed isolation hotels could mean the promise to recruit more police officers for the regions and to tackle organised crime has been put on hold.

The police… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.The property manager of a Newtown house gutted by fire is bewildered as to why no one seemed to have any authority to sort out the neighbouring derelict house where the fire started.

The Wellington… 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

6:38 AM.A Rotorua business owner hasn't seen any improvement to criminal behaviour or conditions for residents living in emergency housing since the government stepped in a month ago.

The city's mayor, Steve… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.New Zealand's pacific community is getting an apology for the Dawn Raids.

Jacinda Ardern yesterday acknowledged the racist policies of National and Labour governments which targeted overstayers by… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.It's been 107 days since the last Covid-19 case in New Zealand - four days longer than the country's previous record.

But there's widespread concerns we are not testing enough, and complacency is… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The Police Minister won't reveal the extent of criminal activity at ten motels providing emergency housing.

Poto Williams says its not in the public interest to release that information, but internal… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio wiped away tears yesterday when announcing his government will officially apologise for the Dawn Raids of the mid-1970s.

The raids… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.The Auckland chapter of the youth environment group 'School Strike 4 Climate' has declared itself racist and disbanded.

Inspired by Swedish teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the… Read more Audio

7:31 AM.Among the most ardent critics of the government's electric car incentive scheme is the National Party, who says it will immediately reverse the policy if returned to power.

Leader Judith Collins says… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Cyber crimes are on the rise, but authorities are blind to just how big the problem is.

That's because there are more than a dozen government agencies and other groups who report, analyse and fight… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Arthur Allan Thomas - framed by police for the infamous murders of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970 - is on trial accused of historical sexual offending.

A two-week trial in the Manukau District… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.A Wellington property owner whose house was destroyed by a fire in Newtown on Sunday night says the adjacant property was an accident waiting to happen.

Bill Guthrie has owned a house on Hanson St… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.Opponents of a mega-landfill north of Auckland are preparing for what they're calling a "colossal" legal fight to stop the tip from going ahead.

On Monday a panel of independent commissioners granted… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.The move to recruit more police officers for the regions and to tackle organised crime has been put on hold because of the demand for officers at managed isolation hotels.

The police had wanted to… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Black Caps spinner Ajaz Patel says there is no rivalry between himself and Mitchell Santner with a possible place in the World Test Championship Final against India up for grabs. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.A woman involved in Saturday's helicopter crash near Christchurch was able to describe the horror of what happened by phone to her husband soon afterwards.

All four people on board the chopper remain… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.It's been 107 days since there was Covid-19 in the community - four days longer than the country's previous record.

But as the virus takes off in other countries once held up as shining lights of… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Pacific advocates are calling for meaningful action to accompany the government's promised an apology for the Dawn Raids era of the mid-1970's.

Jacinda Ardern yesterday acknowledged the racist… Read more Audio

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

8:37 AM.More than 1000 gumboot-clad exhibitors are setting up shop in Hamilton as the National Fieldays makes a triumphant return to Mystery Creek.

Covid-19 forced organisers to shift the three-day event… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.A mega-landfill has just been given the go ahead in the Dome Valley in Auckland.

A panel of independent commissioners has granted the firm Waste Management consent for the 60 hectare dump just north… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.The country has lost a visionary leader and gregarious personality with the death of Sir Eion Edgar.

Longtime colleague Neil Paviour-Smith paid that heartfelt tribute to the 76-year-old businessman… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.Some Wellington bus services will be temporarily reduced due to driver shortages.

Those changes will mean fewer services during the morning and afternoon rush hour.

Scott Gallacher is the Greater… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Four years since the Grenfell Tower fire, families still say they're being denied justice.

The fire started small in a kitchen in London in 2017, and turned in to the most-deadly domestic blaze since… Read more Audio