Checkpoint

After two weeks without greenkeeping, fungal diseases are starting take hold of some sports turfs and are wrecking thousands of dollars of damage.

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Cyclone Harold is bearing down on Fiji, where torrential rain has flooded rivers and powerful winds have already caused significant damage.

The storm has weakened somewhat - now Category 4 - but it… Read more Audio

Covid-19 hospitalisations seem to be levelling off in New York - the epicentre of the pandemic in the US. 

Centre for Disease Control figures show the United States has more than 370,000 cases of… Read more Video, Audio

Two Māori doctors have walked off the job at a Covid-19 testing clinic in west Auckland, after claims the urban Māori leader John Tamihere allegedly told his staff to lie so that they could be tested… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

Foodstuffs is refusing to say why its New World Waikanae store applied for $140,000 in wage subsidies despite appearing busier than ever.

On Tuesday it announced that stores that had applied had… Read more Video, Audio

School lessons will be broadcast in te reo Māori and English from mid next week, and hard copy lessons packs will be delivered to tens of thousands of homes if needed.

The government is also… Read more Video, Audio

Some employers are not passing on all of the wage subsidy they're receiving for workers and are instead pocketing the money for themselves.

As of Tuesday 40 percent of New Zealand's workforce was… Read more Audio

Parents are being told they may need to keep home-schooling their children beyond the level four lockdown.

The government is creating a package so that students can learn at home when term two… Read more Audio

For most New Zealanders there's nothing more comforting than grasping a bulging bag of fish and chips to the chest on the Friday walk home - it's literally heartwarming.

But right now the fish and… Read more Video, Audio

The Hereford Association of NZ president says he was denied a test despite having shaken over 500 hands during the World Hereford conference last month in Queenstown.

The conference, which was held… Read more Video, Audio

The UK Prime Minister who initially advocated herd immunity as the answer to Covid-19 remains in intensive care in a London hospital.

Boris Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central… Read more Video, Audio