Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Wednesday that reducing the skyrocketing number of deaths in the latest coronavirus surge is the city's priority, putting a plan to test the entire population on hold in the latest flip-flop in the government’s...

Hundreds of entertainers including dozens of DJs were handed border exceptions last year, in what a lobby group says highlights the shambolic nature of MIQ.

The New Zealand Taxpayers' Union said 316 foreign entertainers, including 64 DJs, were...

Fieldays has been postponed until later this year.

It's the largest agriculture show in the Southern Hemisphere, that is usually held in June.

But due to Covid-19, concerns the event has had to be moved to between November 30 and December 3.

CEO Peter...

Political commentator Matthew Hooton has written a piece in the NZ Herald saying, "Grant Robertson's $60 billion spend-up and Adrian Orr's money printing have made New Zealand asset holders nearly $1 trillion better off, while the poor have fallen...

An employment lawyer says the Ministry of Social Development's decision to start sacking unvaccinated staff is a risky move. 

The ministry began sacking up to 220 unvaccinated staff this week. 

That's despite advice from the Public Service Commission...

More calls for pregnant women to get the Covid jab.  

Thirty per cent of women giving birth at Middlemore Hospital have Covid-19.  

They're being recommended to wear masks in labour.  

Auckland University researcher Dr Michelle Wise told Kate Hawkesby...

The Auckland Business Chamber says isolation rules for household contacts are a waste of human capital. 

From midnight Friday, Covid-19 cases and their household contacts will only need to isolate for seven days. 

But Chamber chief executive Michael...

Employers may need to reevaluate their thinking around vaccine mandates.  

The Public Service Commission is advising government departments and agencies to ‘pause’ the dismissals of unvaccinated staff.  

Fonterra has now opted to scrap its vaccine...

Chris Hipkins will be among the first people affected by the latest shortening of Covid isolation periods. 

The Covid Response Minister is isolating after one of his children tested positive overnight. 

He received the news hours after he announced a...

A suggestion there's not too much of an appetite for an even shorter isolation period. 

Covid cases and household contacts only have to isolate for seven days, from midnight Friday - with contacts testing on day three and seven. 

EMA Head of Advocacy...