Morning Report for Thursday 4 November 2021

8:57 AM.We've all enjoyed a beer or a coffee over Zoom, and now you can buy a "virtual" drink to support your favourite hangouts from home.

Whether in lockdown or just unable to travel, a new website 'Love… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.If you're in Auckland at the moment and feeling like a tool, you're not alone.

Against a backdrop of otherwise tough stories in the not-for-profit sector, the Auckland Library of Tools seems to be… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.A new high-level coalition for clean energy has been announced at the Glasgow climate summit, involving major governments, international organisations, legislators, business leaders, researchers and… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Facebook's new parent company, Meta, has announced a programme for journalism in New Zealand, in which they'll provide grants and coaching to news media.

It follows action in February by Facebook to… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.A photo of smiling Cleo Smith, the four-year old found in a locked house eighteen days after her disappearance in remote Western Australia, reassured a nation on tenterhooks.

Mother Ellie Smith… Read more Audio

8:36 AM.The Black Caps remain on course for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup but they had to overcome some wobbles in their 16-run win over Scotland in Dubai overnight.

Opener Martin Guptill's 93 was at… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.One of the last stretches of unsealed State Highway in the country is now a step closer to being smothered in tarmac.

The first sod has been turned on a project to seal the last remaining unsealed 12… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.Jacinda Ardern wants to clear the way for vaccinated and negative-tested Aucklanders to leave the region by Christmas and over summer.

The Prime Minister wants to set up a system at the region's… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Another day of COP26, another day of pledges, this time on the costs of climate changes. Billed as "Finance Day" overnight there has been a host of finance announcements.

A coalition of financial… Read more Audio

8:09 AM.Another day of COP26, another day of pledges, this time on the costs of climate changes.

Billed as "Finance Day" overnight there has been a host of finance announcements.

Including from a coalition… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.With shop rents rising, hitting the road could be the new way to go.

A Wellington man is testing the theory with his new mobile record store.

Reporter Charlotte Cook took a look. Read more Video, Audio

7:49 AM.The treatment of women in New Zealand's prisons has outraged a criminologist at Oxford University.

Last year RNZ reported that as well as using regular pepper spray, Corrections use an American… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Lawyers representing Afghans under threat from the Taliban say New Zealand must do more to save their lives.

The High Court in Wellington is hearing a challenge to Cabinet and Immigration decisions… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Church leaders are weighing up if they will re-open only to vaccinated people when the traffic light system kicks in.

Those with more than 100 people in their services will have to wait on the orange… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Auckland Transport is suggesting hundreds of car parks in the city should be ripped out in favour of bus lanes and cycle ways.

It says parks could disappear on main arterial routes and in some parts… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says if people against vaccinations believe in choice they should respect peoples' decisions to get the jab.

Protests have appeared at vaccination centres in… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.Director-General of Health says there was no indication a person who has died while isolating at home with Covid-19 was high risk.

It remains unclear whether the person died from Covid-19 or another… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.About 1000 people with Covid-19 have been assessed to find out if they will isolate at home or be moved to quarantine.

Those on the frontline say the health system is showing the strain, as the… Read more Audio

6:51 AM.Vaccinated Aucklanders could be headed out of the city over summer, but not everyone wants them.

Te Hiku Iwi Development Trust in Te Tai Tokerau chief executive Carol Berghan spoke to Corin Dann. Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is suggesting that double vaccinated Aucklanders and those who test negative for Covid-19 may be able to leave the region by Christmas.

People RNZ spoke to on the… Read more Audio

6:42 AM.An Auckland councillor says the passing of a person isolating at home is tragic, and as much support as possible needs to be given to those in isolation.

The person was found deceased by a family… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.Democrats have been defeated in Virginia, raising serious questions over the future of the party in Congress.

Glenn Youngkin's surprise victory over the Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the race for… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.Overnight, there have been more pledges at COP26 - this time financial.

A coalition of financial institutions, made up of hundreds of the world's biggest banks and finance companies, is pledging 130… Read more Audio