Lisa Owen

The trades industry is getting a shake up thanks to a new project working to get more Pasifika and Māori women to pick up the tools.

Last year just one in 40 new trades apprentices were women, now… Video, Audio

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Sharing the load could come with a healthy boost to the economy.

A Westpac / Deloitte survey has found just seven percent of heterosexual couples, who both work full time, share the domestic chores… Audio

A class action lawsuit is alleging a major building product manufacturer never tested its product before selling it - and once they knew it was defective, continued selling it.

More than a thousand… Audio

National MPs are rallying behind their leader Judith Collins after last night's dire political poll and endorsing her claims of a separatist government agenda.

The Newshub Reid Research poll - which… Audio

The High Court at New Plymouth has heard a man who died while in custody at the Hawera Police Station last year would have survived if he had got medical attention sooner.

Allen Ball died in the… Audio

International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says athletes would be "out of your mind not to be vaccinated" before heading to Japan.

Pound told Checkpoint he has his ticket to Tokyo and unless… Video, Audio

With just two months to the Tokyo Olympics, are the Games really a go?

The host nation has ramped up its Covid-19 controls - expanding the current state of emergency from six areas including Tokyo to… Audio

New Zealand's Covid-19 crown is slipping - and we're running out of time to make the most of it.

That's what Sir Peter Gluckman told a business conference in Auckland today - where the vaccine… Audio

Builders are having to wait nearly half a year to get supplies and say it's getting worse.

It's putting strain on finishing projects, at a time when New Zealand desperately need more homes.

Our… Audio

At least one in five New Zealanders need to be driving an electric car in the next 15 years, and almost all buses and thousands of trucks need to run on batteries, if we're to meet our emissions… Audio

Allegations of sabotage, half-baked ideas, shameful distractions and leading the public down the proverbial garden path.

Some provincial rugby unions and New Zealand Rugby have hit out hard at a… Video, Audio

To Dunedin, where trans-Tasman Super Rugby will make a return for the first time since mid-March last year when the season was canned due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Tonight the Highlanders… Video, Audio

An 82 year old Matamata man has been given home detention over the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact.

Roy Morton pleaded guilty in the High Court in Hamilton and has been sentenced to… Audio

The government's announced big changes to the KiwiSaver scheme which it hopes will give people better bang for its buck.

From December, the number of default providers - those allocated to new… Audio

Disgusted craft beer bars and retailers say they'll no longer stock a Canterbury brewery's range, after its owner posted an anti-Maori rant on social media.

The comments from Eagle Brewing owner… Audio

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A close friend of David McPhail says he felt his 'soul go back down through the mattress' when he woke to news he'd passed away this morning.

Actor and writer Peter Rowley worked alongside comedy… Audio

A 'Robin Hood' policy, redistributing the big salaries of public service chief executives to lower paid workers would be more effective than the government-ordered pay freeze, according to a leading… Video, Audio

You might be able to buy a slice of the All Blacks for as little as $100, according to the investment firm behind the alternative proposal from the Rugby Players Association.

As you heard the plan… Video, Audio