Morning Report for Friday 3 February 2023

8:53 AM.Thousands packed Sky Stadium last night to see singer Ed Sheeran.

Sheeran's team said it was the biggest touring production ever to come to New Zealand.

One fan got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Dunedin City Council is now the proud owner of a 23-million year old lake bed

While the lake has long since dried up, Foulden Maar is a nationally significant fossil site, and will now be protected… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Residents in the Marlborough Sounds are still dealing with wrecked roads after two massive storms caused widespread destruction

Damage from the June 2021 floods is estimated at 85 million dollars… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Flood-hit farmers in Tairāwhiti are backing Government plans for an independent review into management practices on erosion-prone land in the district.

In January the East Coast was battered by… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.Wellington is set to get a new landfill on top of an old one.

The city council has approved plans to extend the Southern Landfill at a cost of $36 million.

The piggyback option will see a new… Read more Audio

8:22 AM.Auckland's floods may have been historic but experts say flooding on a similar scale will strike again soon. 

What can Aotearoa's largest city do to prepare?

University of Canterbury lecturer in… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.St Mary's Bay residents, fed up with Auckland Council, are heading there this morning to be heard in person.

The residents say the council failed to act on their street's blocked drains and a poorly… Read more Audio

8:13 AM.Friday marks a week since the massive rain storm that inundated Auckland killing four people, as well as destroying homes and roads.

Another round of thunderstorms and heavy rain hit the region… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.The economy is probably already in recession, and likely to remain so into next year, according to economics consultancy Infometrics.

It has issued a new set of forecasts for the coming year and… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Seven firetrucks were damaged and at least three are still out of action, after water was sucked into their engines during Auckland's floods.

Fire and Emergency was warned two years ago that air… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Here comes the sun in Auckland - but don't think about going for a swim just yet.

Auckland Council and Watercare are encouraging everyone to stay on dry land over the long weekend.

In the meantime… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.There's good news of sorts on the building-inspection front in Auckland.

After nearly seven days of fanning out across the city inspecting damaged buildings - the biggest such deployment of building… Read more Audio

7:30 AM.Thousands are expected to return to the far north with Waitangi Day festivities set to go ahead for the first time in two years. 

The Prime Minister and government ministers are due to meet with iwi… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Auckland's floods may have been historic but experts say flooding on a similar scale will strike again soon. 

What can Aotearoa's largest city do to prepare?

Anusha Bradley asks four experts for… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.A week after Auckland's record breaking floods, authorities still have no idea how many people have now been made homeless.

Just under 650 have so far asked Auckland Emergency Management for help to… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.If the weather's not enough for those in the north, Waikato residents were rudely awakened by an earthquake which struck at 2am this morning.

The  magnitude 4.8 quake was centred 5-kilometres south… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.Coromandel continues to struggle with the effects of the big deluge of the past week.

The area is grappling not only with the rain itself, but the wallop that it has dealt to business and the… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.A rapidly expanding space industry could undo decades of work to restore the ozone layer, according to reasearchers from the University of Canterbury.

They say we need to look at how to make rocket… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.Aucklanders are being urged to steer clear of the beach this Waitangi weekend.

Auckland Council says major floods have contaminated the waters and coated the beaches in debris making it unsafe to… Read more Audio

6:13 AM.More than 11,000 people reported feeling the earthquake that hit just after 2am on Friday.

The magnitude 4.8 quake was centred 5-kilometres south of Te Aroha, at a depth of 6-kilometres.

People from… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.Rain has continued to fall in the Upper North Island overnight but it seems residents may have escaped the worst. 

In the last 12 hours, 10 to 14 mils of rain fell across parts of the Bay of Plenty.