Lisa Owen

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

Some Canterbury homeowners are worried that missed earthquake damage to concrete slabs could result in another big bill for the taxpayer.

This comes only weeks after EQC told Checkpoint that the cost… Video, Audio

Organisers of a massive school sports tournament are apparently powerless to ban hundreds of unimmmunised students attending despite the measles outbreak.

In little over a week about 11,500… Video, Audio

The numbers are stark: 762 measles cases in Auckland, and 914 cases around New Zealand.

The New Zealand secondary schools rugby league championships have been cancelled, in case its players get or… Video, Audio

The tills began ringing at what will be the country's largest mall, also known as a 'living centre'.

Forty stores opened their doors in the Westfield Newmarket in Auckland, with that number expected… Video, Audio

The government and Auckland Council say they're landing jobs for beneficiaries as part of a scheme to deal with the looming skills gap.

As they pour billions of dollars into infrastructure projects… Audio

Public health experts say they're concerned Auckland's measles outbreak will soon become a nationwide problem.

The Ministry of Health is trying to contain an escalating number of cases in the city… Audio

Today Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a programme to feed hungry children would be trialled next year in 30 schools, centred around the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne, next year.

The price tag… Video, Audio

'An honest politician and the most civil of servants'. That was just one of the tributes paid to Ngāti Hine elder and Waitangi organiser, Pita Paraone, who died earlier this week.

The three-term New… Video, Audio

A doctors' union says they want more resources and fewer excuses, to stop 'ambulance ramping'.

Ramping is when patients are stuck in ambulances at hospital bays, because there isn't a bed free for… Audio

A discovery in Ethiopia is challenging ideas about how the first humans evolved from ape-like ancestors.

Archaeologists found a nearly-complete skull dating back 3.8 million years.

They have… Video, Audio

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

There were haka, waiata and probing questions for the All Blacks Rugby World Cup squad on their visits to the provinces on Thursday.

Groups of players fanned out across the country, from Whangarei… Video, Audio

Anyone travelling to Auckland is being told they must be immunised against measles, as the country deals with its worst epidemic of the highly contagious disease in 22 years.

There are at least 849… Video, Audio

The government is rolling out a daily free lunch trial starting with 30 primary and intermediate schools from the beginning of next year.

The new initiative will be piloted at 30 primary and… Video, Audio

A programme to feed hungry kids with a free lunch at school each day is going to be trialled in 30 schools next year.

The Prime Minister announced the initiative at the launch of the Child and Youth… Video, Audio

The second wave of gun laws is making baddies out of the good guys - according to the National Party.

And it says it unlikely to support legislation after seeing a draft copy that it claims was… Video, Audio

The Supreme Court has reserved its decision after hearing both sides in Mark Lundy's last-chance appeal to clear his name.

Lundy was convicted of murdering his wife Christine and daughter Amber in… Audio

An Auckland fast food restaurant worker says it's intolerable they were asked to effectively continue working after clocking out.

The employee at Burger King Queen Street says a manager called on… Audio

The mother of a Mangawhai toddler at the centre of a murder trial has described finding her baby girl limp and unconscious.

Aaron Archer is on trial in the High Court in Auckland - accused of… Audio