Morning Report for Wednesday 3 April 2024

8:46 AM.It's been nearly nearly six months since the roll out of the green food waste bin was completed in Auckland.

Food scraps in landfills make a lot of methane and CO2 which are harmful greenhouse gases.

8:46 AM.Recent reports of Kava being commercially grown in the United States have sparked concerns about the threat posed to the Kava Industry in the Pacific Islands.

RNZ Pacific's Finau Fonua has more. Read more Audio

8:27 AM.Sam Whitelock, the most capped All Black of all time, is retiring from professional rugby.

He will hang up his boots in June at the end of the 2024 season in France where he is currently playing.

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8:26 AM.Residents of Christchurch's coastal suburbs around New Brighton are being promised they won't have to wait another decade for an urgently needed new bridge.

The existing one is a critical emergency… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.An infectious disease physician and expert in biochemistry says the risk of myocarditis after a Covid-19 vaccine is very rare but needs to be monitored.

Coroner Robin Kay has released the findings… Read more Audio

8:12 AM.The Government says it has a dramatic new plan for the nation, covering, among other things, the oil industry, tax and school absenteeism.

The action plan contains 36 bullet points to be ticked off… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Members of Generation Z, some of the youngest in New Zealand's workforce, say they're struggling with managers that don't always understand the way they speak.

Katie Fitzgerald has more. Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Is it possible writers who don't live in Aotearoa's main centres are disadvantaged when it comes to awards and literary festivals?

On the Ockham Book Awards shortlist, for example, all of this year's… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The Department of Internal Affairs says it has busted a criminal network of scammers, which was responsible for the majority of texting scams in Aotearoa last year.

The result is an 80 percent drop… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.Opponents of seabed mining are furious an Australian company has pulled out of a consent hearing for a controversial project off the Taranaki coast.

They fear Trans-Tasman Resources will instead now… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.Research out this morning from the Retirement Commission has found Māori and Pacific people are managing to save significantly less in their KiwiSaver accounts than other ethnicities.

The research… Read more Audio

7:28 AM.A medical leader says the frightening incident at Wairarapa Hospital over the weekend could happen at any Emergency Department across the country and says boosting security should be an urgent… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that an "unintentional" strike killed seven workers of food aid charity World Central Kitchen.

Among those killed by the Israeli strike were… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Three locations on Auckland's North Shore were under police cordon Tuesday night after an alleged kidnapping.

According to the police callouts database they responded to reports of firearms offending… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.A coroner has ruled it's impossible to tell if a 13-year-old boy died from his covid vaccine or a virus.

Coroner Robin Kay has released findings into this death on Wednesday, one of four in New… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Electric carmaker Tesla has released its first quarter vehicle production and deliveries report, and the numbers are worse than anticipated.

Deliveries fell 8.5 percent from this time last year, and… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.The Drug Foundation says nearly one in five drugs it checked last year were not what people thought they paid for.

The foundation says its drug-checking services are testing fifty percent more drugs… Read more Audio