Midday Report for Friday 28 January 2022

12:46 PM.The government is touting its partly tunneled light rail project as a gamechanger for the city.

The trains would run every five minutes from Wynyard Quarter all the way to the airport.

The editor of… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.JetStar cabin crew members are concerned the company's not checking people's vaccine passes or evidence of negative tests.

At the beginning of the week, the airline introduced a new policy requiring… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

12:26 PM.New Zealand's most successful Olympian, kayaker Dame Lisa Carrington has continued on her winning way - being awarded the New Zealand Olympic committee's top award, the Lonsdale Cup for the third… Read more Audio

12:20 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

12:17 PM.Virologists aren't sounding the alarm bells just yet about a mutated version of Omicron that's been seeping into our borders.

There's little currently known about the new strain, dubbed BA.2, besides… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.An extended underground light rail route will be built in Auckland.

The Government has announced the supercity's light rail project will run under the city from Wynyard Quarter to Mt Roskill, before… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.A new way for Aucklanders to get to the airport, and an Omicron mutation is at the border. Audio