Covid 19

The Minister of Social Development is under growing pressure to do more to help migrant workers in desperate circumstances after losing their jobs due to Covid-19 lockdown and who are unable to access… Video, Audio

A flurry of complaints about people flouting the alert level three rules has seen the Prime Minister reminding us about the restrictions still in place.

The police have set up an online reporting… Audio

Animal welfare charities are expecting a flood of abandoned animals as the country loosens up lockdown restrictions.

Helping U Help Animals - also known as HUHA, was already at capacity across their… Video, Audio

A disgraced police officer who raped his female colleague as she slept has been jailed for six years.

Jamie Foster raped the woman at a Kerikeri motel they had been put up in while working during… Audio

Are community checkpoints legal or illegal? Volunteers have run community checkpoints throughout the lockdown, with professional traffic management help, pulling cars over and questioning motorists… Audio

Fiona Robinson was in a sleepy coastal village somewhere in Argentina when quite by chance she discovered late in the piece, the world was shutting down all around her.

After a breathtakingly… Video, Audio

A Hawke's Bay man has been sent to jail for stabbing a neighbour over a missing packet of tobacco.

Vaughan Davies was convicted of manslaughter for killing father of six Bruce Wirihana in Hastings… Audio

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

An iwi roadblock north of Whangārei remains in place under level three, with volunteers reporting huge increases in traffic.

As questions remain over the legality of such checkpoints, some drivers… Video, Audio

The Director General of Health has poured water on calls from infectious disease specialists for a vaccine to be manufactured here in New Zealand.

On Thursday the specialists aired their fears that… Audio

A migrant worker was forced to ask a budget centre for adult nappies because he was sleeping in his car after losing his job and home due to Covid-19. He does not qualify for a benefit because of his… Video, Audio

New Zealand should brace itself for a new wave of immense poverty and mental distress as it grapples with the fallout from Covid-19.

That was the warning to MPs on the Epidemic Response Committee… Audio

Popularity of cycling during lock down needs to be more inclusive of marginalised communities going forward. Auckland University Maori Health senior lecturer, Dr Rhys Jones explains how that can… Audio

Clinical psychologist Jacqui Maguire talks about why we are so relaxed about social distancing in alert level 3 and why it's different to alert level 4 in our minds. Audio

Online shopping appears to be becoming an increasingly tempting habit for many people stuck at home under lockdown with more time on their hands. Many purchases are practical and essential but others… Audio

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is concerned indigenous people will suffer worse health outcomes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

It says Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Strait… Audio

Invercargill City Council is cutting its staff's wages, and the Public Service Association says that would just punish its lowest paid employees.

From this week, the council's executive leadership… Audio

New Zealand's MPs have been warned the worst is yet to come, with regards to the social and mental distress inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

That was the message presented to the Epidemic… Audio