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8:19 AM.The head of a small South Island forestry crew says he's had to find an extra $100,000 in order to pay wages during the lockdown.

Like many New Zealanders, about 40,000 forestry workers were back on… Read more Audio

8:16 AM.There are claims fast food businesses are breaking social distancing rules less than a week after opening under Alert Level 3.

Unite Union says staff are breaking the rules as staff and customers… Read more Audio

8:08 AM.Blatant breaches of lockdown rules are happening at fast food restaurants as customers and staff struggle to keep their distance.

That's the claim of Unite Union's national secretary Gerard Hehir… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Residents in the Auckland suburb of Remuera say they're being plagued by dead eels, sewage floating down streams and smells so pungent it makes them gag.

The waterways around Hobson Bay have become a… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.Small businesses are crying out for government assistance, including a rent subsidy for all commercial tenants. The government is still considering a number of measures to help them out.

That can't… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.A Taranaki business owner is warning leaseholders to read the fine print of their contracts after being asked to pay his rent in full despite a clause in his lease allowing for a rent cut if he… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.An immigration consultant is predicting an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the Government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants.

.About one in ten of the… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.As complaints flood in of businesses breaching Alert Level 3 Covid-19 restrictions there's uncertainty about who will clamp down on them.

The Government has set up a new investigation team - however… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.A terminal cancer patient has spent days in a half-full hospital waiting to have a procedure that should have taken an hour.

Some doctors have been urging hospitals to get back to business as usual… Read more Audio

7:22 AM.Critics say Workplace is not doing enough to police and enforce the rules for organisations working under Alert Level 3.

Jo Pugh, the head of Worksafe's workplace inspectors speaks to Gyles Beckford.

7:17 AM.Complaints are flooding in about businesses breaching Alert Level 3 restrictions meant to squeeze the life from Covid-19.

There is uncertainty and disbelief around who's policing the breaches and if… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Coronavirus cases in the United States have topped 1 million, and 58,500 people have died - that's more than the total number of Americans killed in the Vietnam war.

It's bad news on the economic… Read more Audio

6:50 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

6:44 AM.A health and safety consultant says Worksafe is being too slack on businesses breaching Alert Level 3 restrictions, jeopardising any move to Level 2.

The Government says its new compliance team of… Read more Audio

6:26 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Read more Audio

6:24 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

6:08 AM.The US now has more than a million confirmed coronavirus cases, and 58,500 deaths, more than the total number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War.

While the number of Covid-19 numbers hits… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.Many Wellingtonians not yet back at work today will be keeping their eyes peeled for a young humpback whale, after it visited the harbour yesterday morning.

The whale was spotted near the… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.Keen golfers have been lining up to get back out on the greens now that the country has moved to Alert Level 3.

Barry Brown, captain of the Royal Wellington Golf Club, was one of the first to tee… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.Several thousand schools and early learning centres are partially reopening today for the first time in five weeks.

Because it's Alert Level 3, only the children up to Year 10 whose parents can't… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Universities are being hammered by a massive downturn in the $5 billion foreign student industry. Some are now considering asking staff to take pay cuts to help their institutions survive.

The… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.One of the country's worst hit regions for novel coronavirus is confident its turned a corner.

There are just 14 active cases in the Southern DHB compared with 101 a couple of weeks ago.

RNZ's Anan… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:27 AM.For hundreds of New Zealanders who didn't listen to Corin on Friday, Level Three came with a side order of cars that wouldn't start.

AA Roadservice says it had attended 1500 jobs and had hundreds… Read more Audio