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A Lower Hutt property developer and a collective of Māori-owned businesses are sacrificing millions of dollars in profit to help first home-buyers.

The Koru Kainga project started in 2018 as a… Audio

It's that time of the week where we taking a look around the country through the lense of our Local Democracy reporters. Nathan Rarere spoke this week with Auckland based Justin Latif. Audio

Some students outside Auckland say they need more help to recover from the impact of Covid on their learning. NCEA exams have been delayed two weeks, and students who have missed 20 days of school or… Audio

It can be tough for adults to get their heads around horrific events like terror attacks, so how do we explain it to our kids? Child and Family Psychologist Linde-Marie Amersfoort offers some advice… Audio

Māori are the least vaccinated group to date, and yesterday, an extra $23 million was announced to assist agencies. Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency CEO John Tamihere told Māni Dunlop middle class and… Audio

New Zealand's second big Covid lockdown may be helping to shrink the country's hidden economy - the under-the-table work that no one pays tax on. 

More than 100 nurses and doctors from around the country are on stand by to help out in Auckland as the Delta outbreak continues to pile the pressure on the region's hospitals.

However, clinicians… Audio

Sometimes it's hard to understand the way other people behave - especially when you're all cooped up together. To the rescue comes a quick quiz about behaviour preferences. Business coach Lynne… Audio

Marae have started vaccination drive-throughs to help boost the low Māori vaccination rate. Data show proportionally fewer Māori are vaccinated than any other group. The Māori Development Minister… Audio

Auckland businesses are screaming out for more financial support from the Government as they face an extended stint in lockdown.

The government has provided a one-off resurgence subsidy to help with… Audio

Auckland businesses will ask the Finance Minister for more financial support in a meeting this morning. As the region heads into another fornight in hard lockdown, business leaders say small and… Audio

Thousands of old lap-tops are needed to be repurposed to help bridge the digital divide, particularly for people in rural areas and children learning from home. Supply chain issues and a shortage of… Audio

Around half of pharmacies around the country have qualified vaccinators ready to administer the Covid-19 shot, but only 13 percent are actually doing the work.

Andrew Gaudin, the chief executive of… Audio

Tough lessons in survival and strategy led Alan Chew to become a leader in innovation and philanthropy. The 66-year-old's now garnering applause for his role in helping New Zealand combat Covid-19. Audio

A wahine Māori with incurable breast cancer believes a new telephone service can help others in her position.

The digital service, called ABCpro, is being trialed out of the Waikato DHB. It allows… Audio

Some families with disabled children are struggling under the lockdown and need more help.

People who work with the children want an alert level 4 rule change so teachers and specialists can visit… Audio

As you've heard this morning, a suicide bomber has killed at least 50 people at Kabul airport in Afghanistan - which in many ways elevates the importance of our next story.. A group of Afghan… Audio

The chief executive and co-founder of Litmaps, Dr Kyle Webster, tells Jesse how the platform works. Audio

Healthcare students are being recruited to help take the pressure of Covid-19 testing stations that have been slammed during this Delta outbreak.

Some people faced waits of up to nine hours with… Video, Audio

There's been a spike in demand for community service providers across the motu during lockdown.

Food parcels, take away lunches and advise to those in need is being given - and providers are… Audio

Dairies are frustrated new Covid-19 provisions for supermarket workers, like vaccine priority and Police support, aren't being extended to smaller grocers.

Sunny Kaushal, chair of the Dairy and… Audio

Rain in the capital helped encourage many Wellingtonians to embrace lockdown today.

It has also hit pause on the capital's major food event - Wellington On A Plate.

Jake McKee has more.

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Lockdowns are not easy, and in some households they're terribly difficult. Clinical Psychologist Jacqui Maguire has written a children's book with effective tools for helping children through scary… Audio

We'll stay in Australia where there has been a further 452 new Covid-19 cases reported in New South Wales. And Prime Minister Scott Morrison has conceded that the Australian government will not be… Audio

Among those trying to get out of Kabul are Afghan nationals who worked with the New Zealand military.

Those that are already here are begging our government to extend its rescue mission to include… Audio