Lisa Owen

News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6248945983001 Video, Audio

Game on, the Pacific Islands are finally being welcomed into the Super Rugby competition after years fighting to be included.

Moana Pasifika, a combined Samoa and Tonga side, and Fijian Drua have… Video, Audio

The government is calling time on livestock exports by sea - saying New Zealand needs to protect its reputation and the welfare of animals.

The ban, which includes a two-year transition period, is… Video, Audio

The Prime Minister has told Parliament the Case B MIQ worker "lied" to his employer. As we've been reporting - Case B - who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past week, had his last recorded test… Audio

An MIQ security guard infected with Covid-19 at the Grand Millennium allegedly lied about having his regular compulsory tests for the virus.

By law, staff in isolation hotels have to be tested every… Video, Audio

It's a scene out of a Dickens novel - coal being shovelled straight into a coal boiler to heat up uninsulated and cold classrooms.

But for many teachers and children across New Zealand, it's daily… Video, Audio

The Education Minister has defended his ministry's handling of serious problems that forced Hutt Valley High School to close an entire block of classrooms.

Hundreds of senior students will have to… Audio

A $100,000 reward and possible immunity from prosecution are being offered in a bid to flush out clues, in the nearly 30-year old cold case of missing toddler Amber-Lee Rose Cruickshank.

The… Video, Audio

Parliament is in line for a multi-million dollar upgrade - with three new buildings planned for the precinct.

The Speaker Trevor Mallard says the current set-up is sub-par, uneconomic and… Audio

Government ministers are confident no taxpayer money has been caught up in donations to the Māori Party, that have been referred to the police.

A donation of $50,000 from the National Urban Māori… Audio

The close 'no' vote in last year's cannabis referendum has left Tairāwhiti cannabis growers and its isolated communities in a rut.

They say prohibition leads to more abuse of harder drugs and… Video, Audio

There are fears Aotearoa could end up with a 'motel generation' as whānau struggling to afford rents are bumped across emergency accommodation providers.

Latest figures show there are more than 4,000… Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6248761166001 Video, Audio

Six banks are promising not to close any regional branches until at the least the end of the year, but that will not save dozens of bricks and mortar branches already earmarked for the chop.

ANZ… Video, Audio

Nearly 30 years on since the disappearance of two-year-old Amber-Lee Cruickshank, her mother Nicola is welcoming the police's new offer of $100,000 for information that leads to a conviction.

On… Video, Audio

Disgruntled Ports of Auckland workers have walked of the job today to cast a vote of no confidence in senior management and the board.

The move puts more pressure on port chief executive Tony Gibson… Video, Audio

Officials who opened a new justice facility in Auckland on Monday morning did so with a promise - that it will have made a significant difference, by this time next year.

The Māori-based service is… Audio

The union representing MIQ workers wants them to get more than thanks for keeping the country safe.

They would like a pay rise too. As you heard two security guards working at the Grand Millennium… Video, Audio

Health authorities are scrambling to work out how Covid-19 spread between workers at Auckland's Grand Millennium managed isolation hotel.

Last night, officials announced that a third worker at the… Audio

The largest Nurses' Union doesn't want non-clinical health workers to plug the shortage of Māori nurses and doctors involved in the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out.

Community health workers at Māori health… Audio