The fire that burned for three days last year at the SkyCity International Convention Centre has been found to be accidental. The roof of the under-construction centre was significantly damaged in the blaze that erupted in October last year, and which took 10 days to fully extinguish. More than eigh

Moving Day will go ahead as planned this year, but with strict controls to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced on Wednesday 22nd April. On June 1 each year, the first day of the dairy season, a large number of dairy farming families, sharemilkers, cont

Remember shows like Happy Days, Days of our Lives, The Professionals,  Barney Miller and more Back in the days when we had the choice of TV One or South Pacific Television later Channel Two. Today in part #1 we take a trip back to June 7-13, 1986 with the Listener TV One listings. Part #2 Windback [

Director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield and Education Minister Chris Hipkins are set to provide details on the latest Covid-19 cases and how the partial re-opening of schools and early childhood centres will work. The total number of confirmed and probable cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus in N

Small Business Minister Stuart Nash, Employment Minister Willie Jackson and Finance Minister Grant Robertson will all be in today’s hot seat. New Zealand will move to alert level 3 from 11.59pm on Monday, meaning five more days in lockdown than originally planned. Watch the Epidemic Response Committ

The Government has announced New Zealand will move out of Alert Level 4 lockdown at 11.59pm on Monday 27 April. We are still in Alert Level 4 until then. We will hold at Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11 May. The Government’s […

Watch the media conference with government officials and ministers. The Government is set to announce today whether New Zealand will stay in Alert Level 4, or whether it will drop into a lower alert level. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern starts the conference by remembering the people who have lost a

There are nine new cases of Covid-19 in the country today and no new deaths, the Ministry of Health says. Seven of the cases are confirmed and two are probable. Fourteen people are in hospital, three in intensive care units (ICU) – one each in Middlemore, Dunedin and North Shore hospitals. Two of th