Borders

'Significant financial hardship, stress, and emotional strain' The Retirement Commissioner says pensioners caught out during the border closures had major difficulties navigating government bureacracy… Audio

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The pandemic smashed the international education sector - but are foreign students returning to our shores? Audio

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Two weeks ago, Jacinda Ardern announced that our borders would fully reopen (including to cruise ships and international students) on July 31 - two months earlier than initially planned. A new poll… Audio

The Prime Minister has announced.  she's bringing forward the full re-opening of our borders, from October to July. Travel operator Robyn Galloway's noticed that travel is very different now, with… Audio

Australia commentator Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the reopening of Australia's borders after 704 days, who are the first arrivals likely to be? Australian tech billionaire Mike… Audio

Kiwi doctor Andrew Read may have played a part (through no fault of his own) in Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and other leading artists leaving Spotify after podcaster Joe Rogan misrepresented an old… Audio

The government last week delivered a timeline for the border to - slowly - crack open again, but many in the primary sector fear it'll be too late to make a dent in their worker shortages and help… Audio

Northland has locked in a summer in the red zone, with gathering limits set to stay in place across the rohe.

For businesses, it's another burn on top of being cut off from much of the country, with… Video, Audio

From 11:59pm Tuesday Auckland's Covid border is reopening, allowing people to travel north and south, to and from the region.

Police and Te Tai Tokerau Border Control will be staffing two checkpoints… Video, Audio

For the first time in four months, Aucklanders will finally get the chance to head south when the city's border opens tomorrow.

It's likely to be a day of busy airports, tearful reunions and a little… Audio

Te Tai Tokerau Border Control founder Hone Harawira is welcoming the high-powered call for unvaccinated people to be blocked from entering the north this summer.

The Northern Region DHBs and Te Kahu… Audio

The border's slowly winching open but New Zealanders overseas will still have to wait until mid-January to avoid managed isolation on arrival.

All arrivals will require a negative pre-departure test… Audio