Morning Report for Thursday 10 March 2022

8:55 AM.Construction companies beset by Omicron are increasingly poaching workers off each other.

One major steel fabricator blames the Government for overcooking the market with too many projects.

RNZ's… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Mayors in Hawke's Bay are vowing to fight the new three waters legislation once it reaches Parliament.

They were underwhelmed by new recommendations from a Government-appointed working group and said… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.The unvaccinated Thames-Coromandel mayor Sandra Goudie has talked about why she won't be getting the noravax vaccine.

Last year Sandra Goudie said she wouldn't get the Pfizer vaccine because she said… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.The lawyer for the Pike River families is hopeful the police have been able to gather enough evidence to proceed with a prosecution.

The police this week notified the families of the 29 mine victims… Read more Audio

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

8:25 AM.An Auckland medical specialist says a greater awareness is needed about the condition known as Long Covid.

Dr Anna Brookes is a senior lecturer and cellular immunologist at Auckland University.

She… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.A Covid modeller is backing the reduction in the length of self isolation but wants testing changed to reduce the risk of the virus spreading.

From Friday people who are positive, and their household… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.A study has found police taking video statements for family harm incidents has dramatically increased the likelihood of getting early guilty pleas.

Police have been trialing video statements from… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.Ukraine is bracing for a major attack on the southern port city of Odesa, on the Black Sea coast.

The cosmopolitan harbour is seen as a strategic asset for both Ukraine and Russia - a seizure of the… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.Fuel retailers are rapidly increasing prices at the pump, as sanctions prevent the purchase of Russian crude oil.

Russia is the third largest oil producer in the world; Reports from the BBC said oil… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.There's a big shake up for public media on the way, with the Broadcasting Minister expected to confirm today a new mega entity - incorporating RNZ and TVNZ.

If it goes to plan, it could be in place… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Explorers and researchers, battling freezing temperatures, have located one of the greatest undiscovered shipwrecks.

The Endurance, the lost vessel of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, was… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.New Zealand's largest education union says schools are under huge stress as they battle Covid-19.

At least 60 per cent of schools in the country have active cases.

NZEI Te Riu Roa national president… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.The amount of Covid-19 detected in the country's wastewater has been increasing at least 10-fold each week for the last couple of weeks.

Scientists have been sampling wastewater since 2020; with… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.The families of the 29 men who died in the Pike River mine disaster are hopeful the police investigation is getting closer to finding out who is responsible for the deaths.

The police this week… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.New Zealand now has the power to impose significantly harsher sanctions on Russia with a new law passed under urgency late on Wednesday night.

It took just five hours for the Russia Sanctions Bill to… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Fresh efforts are underway to free civilians across six of the worst-affected areas in Ukraine, after Russia agreed to another day of ceasefire.

But there were numerous accusations of Russia not… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Auckland hospitals are dealing with far more Covid patients than they predicted in even their worst case scenarios.

Large parts of ordinary care have been put on hold to help the health system cope… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The government has announced that Managed Isolation and Quarantine, or MIQ, will be all but over by the end of June.

By then, 28 of the 32 MIQ facilities will have returned to being hotels.

Philippa… Read more Audio

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

6:48 AM.A business group is calling the reduced Covid-19 isolation requirements a small gasp of relief.

From Friday night, Covid-19 cases will only have to isolate for seven days instead of 10.

The… Read more Audio

6:44 AM.Russia has accused the US of waging an economic war and sowing mayhem through energy markets.

The US announced a complete ban on Russian oil and gas, with the EU and the UK also weaning off Russian… Read more Audio

6:38 AM.A brief update from the RNZ sports team with Barry Guy.  Read more Audio

6:28 AM.News from the rural and farming sector with Sally Murphy.  Read more Audio

6:26 AM.A brief update from the business sector with Gyles Beckford Read more Audio

6:08 AM.An Auckland emergency doctor says her exhausted colleagues are expecting a busy couple of weeks even as hospital cases appear close to peaking.

Latest DHB figures show up to 40 percent of people at… Read more Audio