Checkpoint

First it was Bunnings, now it's Warehouse Stationery closing its doors in Te Awamutu.

Monday's news came as a bolt from the blue for the community with 200 new homes set to be built in the area and… Read more Video, Audio

Questions are being raised around whether The Warehouse Group acted in good faith by taking millions of dollars in Government wage subsidies before announcing at least 1000 jobs could go.

The… Read more Audio

A group of students at an elite Christchurch private school say a teacher tore down posters and verbally abused them for promoting the Black Lives Matter movement.

The students at St Andrew's… Read more Audio

Dunedin City Council today decided to dump unpopular level 2 rules - but only after the government's level 1 announcement rendered them out of date.

The speed limit of the city's main street was… Read more Audio

The Warehouse is shedding around 1,000 jobs in a restructure it says has been accelerated by Covid-19.

The group that also owns Noel Leeming is looking to shut down an additional six stores including… Read more Video, Audio

Staff from Noel Leeming - owned by The Warehouse Group - were looking very glum at the Henderson Clearance Centre today following the announcement of store closures and job losses.

It is one of the… Read more Audio

New Zealand will move to levle 1 at midnight Tuesday morning and in a happy coincidence, on the first day since the outbreak there are no cases of Covid-19.

Usually there's 48 hours notice for a move… Read more Audio

Welfare advocates say the new unemployment benefit for people out of work because of Covid-19 highlights the need for sweeping changes to the current system.

From Monday, people can apply for the new… Read more Audio

Former Māori Party leader Dame Tariana Turia is renewing her call for Oranga Tamariki's chief executive Grainne Moss and the Minister for Children Tracey Martin to resign.

It comes as pressure mounts… Read more Audio

The minister in charge of New Zealand's spy agencies, Andrew Little, is refusing to deny he has signed off on embassy break-ins.

On Sunday he declined an interview on this issue but on Monday… Read more Audio

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark has not confirmed or denied having signed off on embassy break-ins while she was in power between 1999 and 2008.

In an interview for The Service, a new RNZ podcast… Read more Video, Audio