Lisa Owen

Despite calls from the Law Society to defer property settlements, some sellers are still trying to force buyers to pay up, even though they can't move house for the next few weeks.

With almost 6,000… Audio

New Zealanders living in Australia are over the moon they'll be able to access emergency payments being provided amid job losses due to Covid-19.

It follows a plea last week from Jacinda Ardern for… Audio

New Zealand's largest company is emerging as a bright spot in the economic gloom.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell says the co-op is in good financial heart and expecting to stay that way… Audio

Up to five million dollars of chilled meat is headed to landfill if independent butchers are not allowed to reopen within the next five days.

Group principal at the Aussie Butcher, Keith Oddy, says… Audio

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

What is it like on the front line of New Zealand’s supermarkets during the Covid-19 lockdown? 

There have been daily tears, racial abuse, and in some cases violence, a checkout staff member told… Video, Audio

Thousands of Air New Zealand workers are fighting to keep their jobs as the airline struggles with a massive drop in income.

The national carrier expects income to slump by $5 billion after slashing… Audio

Testing and tracing needs to be ramped up and more effort needs to be made to ensure New Zealanders returning from overseas are strictly quarantined.

Senior government officials and the Health… Audio

With all but essential businesses closed for the lockdown - many people are either working from home or not working.

But should you be paid in full or only the wage subsidy? Can you be told to take… Video, Audio

A nationwide property management company is actively discouraging landlords from offering rent holidays to struggling tenants during the Covid-19 shutdown.

On its website and in emails to landlords… Audio

After days of warnings and education, police are taking a harder line for those repeatedly breaking the isolation rules.

The Police Commissioner's rhetoric around tourists flouting the rules is… Audio

Desperate New Zealanders stuck in Peru are pleading with the government for help, after they were bumped off an Australian charter flight that was meant to get them home.

Over the weekend, 24 New… Audio

A police website for reporting suspected lockdown breaches was so overrun with complaints it crashed just hours after being launched.

If you suspect a business or individual is breaching the Covid-19… Audio

More than twenty cases of Covid-19 have been linked to a St Patrick's Day party at a bar in the small Waikato town of Matamata.

The Waikato District Health Board has confirmed there are now 23 cases… Audio

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

Family members within the same bubble of a deceased person will now be able to visit them in a funeral home, after the Ministry of Health announced new guidelines for funerals and tangihanga on Monday… Audio

The tourism industry is in survival mode as it braces for extended border closures.

The government is not ruling out keeping up borders restrictions until a vaccine for Covid-19 is available - which… Audio

Shoppers will be able to dob in alleged price gouging by supermarket chains - after the government set up a special email address for people to send their complaints too.

The two main brands… Video, Audio

Rules preventing independent fruit and vegetable sellers from trading during the Covid-19 lockdown are said to be leading to huge food waste and high produce prices.

The independents say they can… Video, Audio

Police Commissioner Mike Bush has made a subtle threat that if people can't get their social distancing right, there will be consequences.

Police were called to a 60-person party at a backpackers in… Video, Audio