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Woolworths New Zealand, which runs the Coutdown chain of supermarktes, says it welcomes the Commerce Commission's report and it will commit to the steps expected of it.

Woolworths declined to be… Audio

The Commerce Commission has stopped short of a radical shake up of the supermarket sector to improve competition for consumers.

Its final report into the $22 billion sector says Foodstuffs and… Audio

Midday News for Tuesday 8 March 2022 Audio

A pay gap registry has gone live, with forty-seven of Aotearoa's largest employers voluntarily committing to report their discrepancies in pay.

A smaller number are also registering their pay… Audio

More trucks are being fitted with safety systems, and handbrake testing is changing, to guard against potentially fatal accidents.

Several people have been killed in recent years by runaway trucks… Audio

A homeless mother with six young children and a newborn had to pitch a tent during a storm after she said Work and Income declined to help her.

Mariska Kruger, from Napier, says the agency knew about… Audio

A new report suggests that working from home is more challenging for women than men.

The ASB/NZIER research shows that women are less likely to have ideal equipment and more likely to be lumbered… Audio

Emergency ambulance services around the country have recorded their highest-ever number of 111 calls this past weekend.

On Sunday alone, St John and Wellington Free Ambulance recorded 2322 calls for… Audio

A homeless mother with seven young children says she had to pitch a tent in a park during a storm after Work and Income told her it couldn't help.

Mariska Kruger, from Napier, says despite the agency… Audio

Consumer NZ hopes the Commerce Commission will move today to break up the supermarket duopoly.

Its long awaited report on the supermarket industry is due out at 8.30am.

Consumer NZ says it's… Audio

Some homes in Porirua north of Wellington may be raised, relocated or bought-out as the City Council grapples with it's flood-prone future.

The Council is spending almost $18-million upgrading its… Audio

National's leader Christopher Luxon makes the case for tax cuts. Kathryn, Stephen and Brigitte discuss what further sanctions New Zealand could place on Russia. Also, the protest at Parliament is… Audio

Communities around Wellington are on guard against protesters setting up camp in their neighbourhoods.

While some of the protesters have gone home since they were cleared away from Parliament; some… Audio

The Government has ringfenced nearly $600 million for redeveloping Whangarei Hospital.

The current hospital is plagued with problems -- it does not meet building standards and the Northland District… Audio

Midday News Update for 4 March 2022 Audio

The union covering thousands of Allied Health workers says it's angry that it's been ordered to cancel a strike planned for today.

The PSA had already agreed to call off the planned day-long strike… Audio

Disinformation researchers say those creating and spreading harmful lies online mostly fled as the scene turned into a riot.

But the people who'd consumed that disinformation -- those who had been… Audio

We begin outside parliament, where the area is still cordoned off by the police today. 

Some officers are bandaged, bearing the scars of a battle against people radicalised by disinformation.

Seven… Audio