Chen Liu

South Auckland doctors are setting up their own Covid-19 test sites to encourage anxious communities at the heart of the current outbreak.

South Seas Healthcare and Bader Drive Doctors are joining… Audio

Auckland will move down to Covid-19 Alert Level 2 from Monday if there's no significant change in the cluster's growth and trajectory.

That will allow schools, retail and hospitality businesses to… Audio

Aucklanders will find out on Monday if they're stay in Alert Level 3 or if the Covid-19 outbreak is contained enough to relax the lockdown.

RNZ reporter Chen Liu has been out in the CBD talking to… Audio

Nine police checkpoints have now been set up around the perimeter of Auckland, as its 1.6 million residents return to Level 3 lockdown.

With Auckland now ground zero for the community transmission… Video, Audio

The communities of south Auckland and Queenstown are being encouraged to get tested for Covid-19 to ensure there is no community transmission after a visitor to the areas tested positive in South… Audio

NetSafe is warning businesses to be on alert for what's known in the retail industry as "chargeback fraud". Customers are using third party online discount offers to order services paid for with… Audio

A trust fund is being set up to look after the health of the Waikato River as authorities agree in principle for Auckland to take more water from it.

The agreement is an interim measure to help ease… Audio

The government has ruled out international students returning in July and August in time for the next semester but will be announcing a recovery plan next month for the $5 billion industry.

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New research shows the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders.

The study commissioned by the charity Asian Family Services, has found… Audio

Campers, trampers and Coromandel residents were all wringing out their mops today after a deluge of prolonged heavy rain over the long weekend.

More than half a metre of rain lashed the region over… Audio

The National party leader, Todd Muller, has spent the morning in Katikati, on his first public walkabout since taking up his new role on Friday.

Mr Muller toured Apata Group Limited, a small business… Audio

Unemployed migrant workers caught in the cracks amid the Covid-19 crisis say they're still not getting enough help from authorities here or in their home countries.

The First Union's Network of… Audio

While most New Zealanders are adjusting to life under Alert Level 3 after almost five weeks at Level 4 - some are emerging from months living under even tighter restrictions.

For a small group caught… Audio

Nurses at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland say they're alarmed by a Counties Manukau DHB plan to reuse personal protective equipment.

RNZ has been shown correspondence telling staff to collect old… Audio

An Auckland woman says she was shocked that her boss applied for the government's wage subsidy under her name after making her redundant.

The acupuncturist says she didn't get any notice before the… Audio

New Zealanders are snapping up bread-makers and kitchen utensils as people prepare to stay at home amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

Despite the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern asking people to shop… Audio

New Zealand's borders are shut for the first time in history.

The call was made last night to close the border from one minute to midnight.

Jacinda Ardern says the significance of the decision is… Audio

Struggling Chinese businesses in Auckland hit hard by the coronavirus are hoping to get a slice of the government's massive wage subsidy package.

Employers who can prove their revenue has dropped by… Audio