Lisa Owen

Covid-19 hospitalisations seem to be levelling off in New York - the epicentre of the pandemic in the US. 

Centre for Disease Control figures show the United States has more than 370,000 cases of… Video, Audio

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

Foodstuffs is refusing to say why its New World Waikanae store applied for $140,000 in wage subsidies despite appearing busier than ever.

On Tuesday it announced that stores that had applied had… Video, Audio

School lessons will be broadcast in te reo Māori and English from mid next week, and hard copy lessons packs will be delivered to tens of thousands of homes if needed.

The government is also… Video, Audio

Some employers are not passing on all of the wage subsidy they're receiving for workers and are instead pocketing the money for themselves.

As of Tuesday 40 percent of New Zealand's workforce was… Audio

For most New Zealanders there's nothing more comforting than grasping a bulging bag of fish and chips to the chest on the Friday walk home - it's literally heartwarming.

But right now the fish and… Video, Audio

The Hereford Association of NZ president says he was denied a test despite having shaken over 500 hands during the World Hereford conference last month in Queenstown.

The conference, which was held… Video, Audio

The UK Prime Minister who initially advocated herd immunity as the answer to Covid-19 remains in intensive care in a London hospital.

Boris Johnson was admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in central… Video, Audio

The government is cautiously optimistic the level four lock down restrictions are working.

For the first time since the outbreak, the Director-General of Health has confirmed larger numbers of… Audio

As the Covid-19 lockdown continues, most schools, universities and workplaces are now online, but not everyone has access to the web.

Internet companies and the government are working together to… Audio

There are concerns for refugee families who might not be able to keep up with the rapidly evolving information coming out everyday about Covid-19.

There are 19 translations of basic information about… Audio

Lawyers looking to sue the owners of the Covid-19-infected Ruby Princess cruise ship say compensation could run into the millions of dollars.

The ship is Australia's single biggest source of… Video, Audio

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

With Cyclone Harold slowly moving away from Vanuatu, reports are slowly starting to emerge of the scale of destruction there. 

The Category 5 storm tore across the country's northern and central… Audio

Help is on the way for dozens of New Zealanders stuck in Peru, with details being finalised for a government-chartered mercy flight.

Questions remain about whether more flights can be arranged, but… Audio

An entire sports stadium in Auckland has been transformed into a food bank to help feed thousands of households going hungry during the lockdown.

As New Zealand's cases of Covid-19 start to level… Video, Audio

The Health Minister David Clark will keep his job for now after breaching the lockdown rules - but the Prime Minister says if it had been any other time he would have been sacked.

Clark has admitted… Audio

If you have not heard about them already, the Buchanan family from Wellington have proven there is much fun to be had inside your bubble.

Jack Buchanan enlisted the help of his friend and… Video, Audio

In the UK more than 4000 people, including doctors and nurses, have died during the coronavirus outbreak.

In the last 24 hours the Queen has made a rare public address and Prime Minister Boris… Video, Audio

A class action is being prepared against Carnival Cruises after hundreds of passengers on the Ruby Princess became infected with Covid-19 and 10 people died.

The ship visited a number of New Zealand… Audio