Covid 19

Families are asking for clarity around care arrangements for children whose parents are separated.

With the lockdown coming into place tonight there are questions about what will be allowed and what… Audio

Worried parents from an Auckland secondary school are trying to work out how to best isolate their children after the whole school was declared closed because of coronavirus.

There are now four… Audio

Germany is organising mercy flights to repatriate its citizens from New Zealand.

The first flight is expected to arrive on Friday.

Thomas Sparrow is our correspondent in Berlin. Audio

The Tokyo Olympic Games are being postponed.

The games were due to begin on 24 July will now take place no later than next year's northern hemisphere summer.

The delay, the first ever in peacetime… Audio

Parliament is being suspended for almost five weeks after urgent business is dealt with today.

A new cross-party committee has been set up to allow for continued scrutiny of the government's Covid-19… Audio

Hospitals and medical centres could face a shortage of doctors and nurses tomorrow.

That's the warning of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists which says there hasn't been enough time for… Audio

The Council of Trade Unions is accusing some employers of bad behaviour in the face of the Covid-19 crisis.

One of the complaints is that employers are compelling staff to use sick leave or annual… Audio

The clock is ticking, in just under seventeen hours, the country will be in a coronavirus lockdown.

Everything will be shut and everyone will be stuck in their homes - unless they're involved in an… Audio

Parliament will urgently convene one last time this afternoon to put the country in a State of Emergency before shutting up shop over the four-week lockdown.

MPs will then head into self-isolation -… Audio

Jesse Stevens is a New Zealander in a suburb of Barcelona and has been in lockdown for 10 days.

The government has recently extended the lockdown there until April 12.

He speaks to Corin Dann. Audio

Queenstown's mayor fears thousands of migrant workers in Queenstown may struggle to have food or shelter after losing their jobs and becoming stranded.

Jim Boult says some will need urgent government… Audio

A mortgage holiday repayment scheme is being warmly welcomed by landlords, but hitting all the wrong notes with some renters.

The government announced yesterday that banks have agreed people hit in… Audio

An employment lawyer is warning many workers will fall through the cracks under the Government's Covid-19 wage subsidy scheme.

The Finance Minister Grant Robertson has dramatically expanded the… Audio

The drought in many parts of New Zealand continues to bite even after rain in some of the affected areas.

The entire North Island, parts of the South Island and the Chatham Islands are in drought.

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The lockdown deadline has been extended for people trying to high tail it home by 11.59pm Wednesday.

Pressure on ferries, trains and planes, and the need to keep passengers a safe distance apart… Video, Audio

Hunker down and stay home. That's the message from the Prime Minister as the country heads into the final 24 hours before nationwide lockdown begins.

It will be four weeks minimum before the… Video, Audio

Restaurants are crying out for clarity on government restrictions and essential services as the deadline for the unprecedented nationwide shut down fast approaches.

Food bag delivery services are… Video, Audio

Meanwhile mass flight cancellations and border closures in crucial transit countries are wreaking havoc on New Zealanders' travel plans trying to come home, as well as those going the other way.

One… Video, Audio

The rush is on to get home before midnight on Wednesday when officially all of New Zealand will be in lockdown.

Stranded airline passengers are trying to book last minute flights with Air New… Video, Audio

The government on Tuesday agreed to six-month mortgage holidays and another $6.25 billion for a finance guarantee scheme for small and medium-sized businesses.

So where did the money come from and… Video, Audio