Lisa Owen

A keen gardener and volunteer, a legomaster and a young boy with a cheeky smile. Tributes have been flowing for three Raetihi residents who died in a farm vehicle accident on Sunday.

Mike and Bev… Video, Audio

Meanwhile, stadium bosses, team Ceos and food vendors are welcoming the news that sports fans are now allowed back through the turnstiles.

New Zealand's professional sports teams in rugby, netball… Audio

How do people feel about moving to level 1 from midnight? Alex Perrottet and cameraman Nick Monro went to the Auckland suburb of Henderson to find out. Video, Audio

In just under seven hours New Zealand will finally move to alert level 1, about 101 days since our first confirmed case of Covid-19.

From midnight Tuesday morning, social distancing is no more. You… Video, Audio

The government is committing to buying more than $1.5 billion dollars-worth of new planes for the Defence Force.

It is purchasing five new Lockheed Martin Super Hercules to replace the outdated 1960s… Audio

More commercial properties in our big cities are up for lease as some businesses close and others look to downsize.

Even as the prospect of returning to level one and normal life beckons - is there a… Audio

An extra 40,000 struggling businesses will be able to access the next round of the wage subsidy scheme following a drop in eligibility requirements.

The current wage subsidy scheme runs out on… Audio

Families affected by Pharmac's decision to switch brands of Epilepsy drug say they have had no say in a report into the drug buying agencies processes, and are insulted by its findings.

The review… Audio

A single tea bag and a burned sock were vital clues that led to finding trampers Jessica O'Connor and Dion Reynolds alive and well.

The pair was found hungry and exhausted last week in a remote part… Audio

Hundreds of displaced Queenstown workers may be used to help tackle a growing pest problem - wilding pines.

It's part of the $100 million the government announced in March to help redeploy workers… Video, Audio

The Earthquake Commission's boss Sid Miller is again apologising on Friday, just a week and a half after saying sorry to 8,000 customers for accidentally leaking their personal details to a lawyer and… Audio

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

Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood wants a blueprint for a Trans-Tasman travel bubble on Cabinet's agenda when it meets on Monday. The company has cut over 100 jobs and could be forced… Video, Audio

A man who viciously stabbed a family's miniature pony 41 times has been jailed for two and a half years after what the sentencing judge described as a cruel and barbaric attack.

Reginald Ozanne, who… Audio

After Checkpoint's story on cancelled flight credits, Air New Zealand changed its policy so the owner of credits can choose who they're used for.

It also refunded extra money Alexa Bell had to pay… Video, Audio

Air New Zealand chief executive Greg Foran has told Checkpoint refunding all customers for cancelled flights would ground the airline for good.

The national carrier is losing $5 million a day and is… Video, Audio

Meanwhile former US President Barack Obama has spoken publicly for the first time since George Floyd's death, saying that while the protests have been difficult and scary, they provide an opportunity… Video, Audio

Waikato business Discover Waitomo is the first to benefit from a government plan to protect so called strategic tourism assets, with a $4 million grant to help it cushion the blow from Covid-19.

The… Video, Audio

Air New Zealand cannot afford to offer refunds to everyone impacted by flight cancellations during the Covid-19 outbreak without dipping into its $900m government loan, Air New Zealand's chief revenue… Video, Audio

New Zealand First is flexing its muscles within the coalition, now publicly criticising some of the commercial rent measures its partner Labour had been pushing for - which it ended up blocking.

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