Morning Report for Wednesday 6 March 2024

8:54 AM.Four New Zealand authors are in the running for a $65,000 fiction prize at this year's Ockham Book Awards.

Sixteen award finalists have just been announced in four categories: fiction, poetry… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.The opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, arguably this country's greatest musical export, is 80 on Wednesday.

RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump compiled this special birthday tribute. Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Animal Management is warning residents of an Auckland suburb that a pair of dangerous dogs is on the loose and to keep an eye on their cats.

The council says they have had two complaints in Mt… Read more Audio

8:39 AM.A youth advocate says evidence shows boot camps for young offenders don't work and that teens continue to break the law when they return to the community.

This follows the coalition government's… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Scammers have targeted the work of Māori designers and artists promoting the Toitū Te Tiriti movement.

The phrase, meaning Honour the Treaty, is popular among activists protesting the government's… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.More than 500 children live in emergency housing in Hamilton city.

The effect of unstable housing on their education can be profound.

And community groups who support whānau want more consistent… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.The government is scrambling to tick off its 49-point agenda amid the final week of their first 100 days in office.

And the Labour party is finding plenty to criticise.

It says National's proposed… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is in new territory this week with a collaborative programme to mark the fifth anniversary of the mosque attacks in Christchurch in which 51 people were murdered.

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7:48 AM.The Olympic Games are just under five months away in France and many New Zealand athletes have already been standing on winners podiums.

At the recent World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.The principal of a central Auckland school is worried that plans to fix the gym, which is sliding down a bank, are dead in the water as the government moves to review school property projects.

The… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.KiwiRail is investigating if new overhead lines in Wellington were badly installed and may have been the reason commuter trains ground to a halt for hours in early January.

At the time it said the… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.There's no guarantee the Defence Force's ageing Boeing 757 fleet will be replaced before the next election.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon missed meetings with world leaders in Melbourne on Tuesday… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.It's one of the most significant dates in the US political calendar, Super Tuesday, when voters in more than a dozen states pick their Democratic and Republican candidates for the Presidential… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Hurricanes management may apologise to the government over a haka performed on Saturday.

The Wellington-based Super Rugby Aupiki team, the Poua, altered a haka to include the words "karetao o te… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.The first of the boot camps promised by the coalition government should be operating by the middle of the year.

The plan is to begin with a pilot boot camp that has both a military-style component… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.The Hurricanes' chief executive says he is prepared to apologise to the government about a controversial haka performed by the women's side the Poua on Saturday.

Before their Super Rugby Aupiki… Read more Audio

6:10 AM.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the situation in the Gaza Strip is "simply unacceptable" and Israel must "maximise every possible means and every possible method to get aid to those who need… Read more Audio