A report from Retail NZ shows business confidence has taken a hammering since the return of Covid-19 to New Zealand. As customers keep their distance and border restrictions stifle supply chains, Retail NZ warns 10,000 businesses could be on the brink. Karyn speaks with Retail NZ's chief executive Greg Harford.

The search and rescue operation continues in the East China Sea for the missing Gulf Livestock 1 ship with 43 crew including two New Zealanders and a cargo of 5,800 live cattle.

Mediawatch's midweek catch up with Karyn Hay on Lately. This week Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn about the New Zealand Herald's "A Nation Divided" and interpretations of an exclusive NZ Herald Kantar poll.

Yesterday the Provincial Growth Fund announced $8.5 million funding for the restoration of Ruapekapeka Pā in the Far North.

The Government has turned to pen and paper for its newest covid tracking tool to support people who don't have smart phones and therefore aren't using the Covid tracer app.

Libraries around the country are finding themselves at the centre of local responses to the Covid19 pandemic.

Australia's treasurer Josh Frydenberg has hit back at Facebook's warning it could ban Australian news content saying he won't respond to threats. Karyn speaks with Dr Belinda Barnet from the Swinburne University of Technology the impact of the mandatory News Bargaining Code and Facebooks threats.

One of the original CovidCard backers, Sam Morgan, has pulled his team from the project saying it's become mired in government bureacracy. The Government says it doesn't need him to continue with a trial at the end of this month.

A team of scientists from the universities in the UK have found that 28-trillion tonnes of ice have disappeared from the surface of the Earth since 1994, with 60-percent of all melting occurring in the Northern Hemisphere.

The national cyber security centre says financial organisations must stay alert for cyber attacks. The denial of service attacks have targeted New Zealand businesses including the stock exchange and media companies in the past week. Paul Spain from Gorilla Technology shares his perspective on the attacks.