Lisa Owen

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

Nearly seven weeks after confirming its first case of Covid-19, and weeks into a nationwide lockdown, another student from Auckland's Marist college has tested positive.

It brings New Zealand's… Video, Audio

For the first time ever, Parliament is issuing summonses to the Solicitor-General, the Director-General of Health and the Police Commissioner, seeking all legal advice on the lockdown.

The Epidemic… Audio

Former parliamentary counsel and law drafter Andrew Borrowdale is putting the question to the test, asking the High Court to rule lockdown level 4 and 3 illegal. He is arguing that Director-General of… Video, Audio

There have been a few ruffled feathers on a couple of West Auckland Facebook pages over the past week with a number of unconfirmed sightings of barn owls.

Barn owls are widespread in Australia, and… Audio

A North Canterbury family have finally had positive news after their two family dogs were poisoned by an epilepsy drug on Friday. Video, Audio

Pests of the non-human variety have been caught on camera breaking lockdown rules on an island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf.

Cameras were set up on pest-free Motukorea/Browns Island in March after a… Audio

The Opposition is pitting its own financial rescue package against the government's, arguing National is better placed to rebuild the economy in the wake of Covid-19.

The plan begins with a bold $8… Audio

A bunch of us are hanging out for the social freedoms of level 2 maybe a few drinks with buddies, or even a previously outlawed party.

Businessman Leo Molloy is one of them. He is planning a level 2… Audio

Leaked Ministry of Social Development documents show the agency is planning for hundreds of thousands of extra people to apply for benefits as Covid-19 creates a tidal wave of unemployment.

RNZ… Video, Audio

The Waitematā District Health Board is creating work 'bubbles' to limit staff movements at hospitals dealing with Covid-19 patients.

It comes amid a probe into how three nurses at Waitakere Hospital… Audio

Two family-owned Auckland fruit shops are criticising lockdown rules as confusing. Longstanding businesses Jack Lum, in Remuera, and KC Loo Fruit Centre, in Mt Eden, initially believed they could open… Video, Audio

New Zealand has been at Alert level 3 for a week now and with more businesses operating, it has brought some relief to the economy.

With the number of new cases of Covid-19 staying at single digits… Video, Audio

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

The Prime Minister says the response to appeals to break mandatory quarantine on compassionate grounds should not be an 'automated' one.

Speaking at the Covid-19 media briefing on Tuesday, Jacinda… Audio

Glen Denham is the principal of Massey High School in West Auckland. He discusses the impact of the level 4 and level 3 lockdown on education in New Zealand. Video, Audio

Education leaders have variously described the Education Ministry's response to the pandemic as a shambles, a game of Russian roulette, as well as nimble and responsive.

They warned Parliament's… Audio

After a video meeting between Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday morning, the two leaders say they are committed to introducing a trans-Tasman… Video, Audio

Gun owners are challenging the government's decision to ban certain types of ammunition without compensation.

A judicial review hearing is underway at the High Court in Wellington between the Council… Audio

One of the organisers of repatriation flights for New Zealand citizens and Visa holders from India says the evacuees are being looked after well at a central Auckland Hotel. The New Zealand Government… Audio