Morning Report

A school says the family involved in a fatal police shooting in Tauranga have been getting support from the Ministry of Education before the tragic events unfolded.

A man was shot dead by the police in a property on Oriana Crescent in Bellevue Sunday afternoon.

The police say they were initially called after the man threatened his partner with a knife.

The woman escaped later but three children, aged four, six and 11 remained in the house.

The man was shot after he was found holding a machete to the throat of one of the children - it was after a stand-off of 15 hours.

Bellevue School's Trustees chairperson Maia Ririnui told RNZ reporter Chen Liu Chen that two of the children are attending the school.

Climate activists have spent a second night on board an oil support ship in Timaru.

The Skandi Atlantic has been occupied since early Sunday.

Police removed eight protestors on Monday.

The activists want to stop OMV from drilling three oil wells in the Great South Basin off the Otago coast and the Taranaki coast next month.

Rosemary Penwarden speaks to Corin Dann from the protest on board the boat.

News from the rural and farming sector.

A brief update from the business sector.

Ngāti Kahungunu says it's been tricked by the Hawke's Bay Regional Council into supporting a water project it strongly opposes.

The Provincial Growth Fund awarded $30 million to the council for water security projects in August, after the region's leaders - including the chair of Ngāti Kahungunu - signed a letter of support.

But the iwi's environment and natural resources director, Ngaio Tiuka, says they didn't find out until a month later some of the money would go towards exploring controversial technologies like river augmentation - which the council knew it did not support.

The New Zealand cricket captain Kane Williamson says to come back from losing the toss and giving up 350 runs to England in their first innings shows a remarkable performance by his side.

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Polling has begun in Bougainville's referendum on whether to have independence or greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea.

Mobile phones across the country were set off by the latest test of the national Civil Defense cell phone alert system on Sunday night.

About 60 percent of phones were alerted in previous tests of the Emergency Mobile Alert, and while final figures aren't in yet, the director of Civil Defence, Sarah Stuart-Black, says early indications are that Sunday night's test reached more.

She speaks to Corin Dann.

Local building owners with potentially flammable building cladding are being urged to join a class action seeking compensation from manufacturers.

The law firm Russel McVeagh and an Australian litigation funder, are offering to pay any property owners to have their buildings checked for aluminium composite panels mxied with plastic.

The fatal blaze of London's Grenfell Tower was blamed on the same material.

The firms expect the panels to unknowingly be on hundreds of buildings here too.

An initial investigation of 300 buildings by Auckland Council, found about half of them have the flammable cladding - including parts of Auckland Hospital, Auckland University, commercial buildings with hundreds of offices and towers with more than 5000 apartments.

The litigation fund IMF Bentham is financing two similar class actions in Australia.

Business reporter Madison Reidy spoke to IMF's investment manager Gavin Beardsell, about its decision to kick-off a class action here.