New Zealand

Air New Zealand is scrambling to cut costs as it fights to remain alive in a world where few are now flying.

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars of government support, it's taking the scalpel to… Audio

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

In Auckland's Ōtara a team of locals has been working hard to get food and essentials out to some of the suburb's most vulnerable residents.

Every Thursday the team has been gathering to fill large… Video, Audio

Horticulture New Zealand says it's asked the government for flexibility to allow more Independent grocers and other food outlets to fully open at level 3.

The lockdown has crippled produce supply to… Audio

For each of the past six days the number of new coronavirus cases has slowed to fewer than ten in New Zealand.

That is down from a daily peak in the high 80s after more than four weeks locked down in… Video, Audio

Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters says some businesses could be saved if the country creates a trans-Tasman bubble - and he's open to starting on a state-by-state basis.

Australia has had similar… Audio

As New Zealand's level 4 lockdown comes to end, Countdown and Foodstuffs workers who were promised a 10 percent pay bonus for their frontline duties will lose it. 

Staff have not seen any extra money… Audio

A New Plymouth beauty salon owner is going the extra mile in an attempt to save her business and the jobs of her employees - which are teetering on a knife's edge due to the Covid-19 crisis.

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With lockdown alert level 3 approaching, small, independent restaurants and cafes are coming up with ways of making sure they can still deliver to hungry customers.

From a group of Wellington… Video, Audio

Some families stuck in India since lockdown have been forced to pay up to $30,000 to get on a repatriation flight home.

Early on Friday morning, an Air NZ 777 will take off from New Delhi. And as… Audio

The Kohanga Reo National Trust has advised all kohanga reo to remain closed under alert level 3, saying they are not willing to risk transmitting the virus to its vulnerable kaumatua or to whānau.

It… Audio

A Covid-19 centre in South Auckland is testing people who aren't showing any symptoms in a bid to reach at-risk Pacific communities.

Ministry of Health guidelines require testing of those with at… Audio

Media companies hard hit by plummeting advertising revenue since the start of Covid-19 level 4 lockdown have been offered a lifeline by the government in the form of a $50 million support package.

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The days may seem like they're merging into one, but New Zealand has been in level 4 lockdown a month now.

The Oliver family of Pukekohe has four kids in their bubble, and 73-year-old Tricia is in a… Video, Audio

As of next Tuesday, funerals and tangihanga will be able to go ahead, albeit with a strict ten person limit, and enforced social distancing.

It has prompted a sigh of relief from funeral directors… Audio

The government's wage subsidy scheme has been paid to nearly 1000 companies who shouldn't have received it.

More than $10 billion has been paid out to businesses - the bill has now reached more than… Audio

Bubble breakers have been out in force over the past 24 hours with police catching 423 people breaching the Covid-19 lockdown rules.

Since New Zealand went into alert level almost 4,500 people have… Audio

The mayor of Queenstown Lakes has described plans to cut hundreds of tourism jobs as a horror story.

One of the country's largest tourist operators, Ngāi Tahu Tourism, has announced plans to close… Audio