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Rapid fire breaks out in the mortgage wars as combatants each aim at marginally different territory. Borrowers watch as the landscape becomes very fluid very quickly
Air New Zealand has announced domestic flights connecting Dunedin with Auckland and Wellington will resume on Monday, June 1. The airline has also...
Stuff
The Government is pumping billions into health in its upcoming budget.
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BNZ's economists are forecasting a 12% drop in house prices and an even bigger decline in the construction of new homes
RNZ
New Zealanders have a new date to count down to, with the country to drop out of alert 3 and into level 2 on Thursday. Follow RNZ's live blog for the latest.
Newsroom
Newsroom Investigations editor Melanie Reid, with reporter Bonnie Sumner, outline the growing Covid-19 infections arising from practices at Waitakere Hospital and how authorities repeatedly tried to downplay concerns and fall back on standard procedures.
Newsroom
A coalition of businesses has asked the Electricity Authority to delay making a final decision on the belated transmission pricing methodology review, in light of the uncertain economic climate.
Stuff
Kiwis will be able to fly 7 more routes after the country enters alert level 2.
interest.co.nz
New Zealand's largest bank follows two of its main rivals down with one home loan offer of 2.99%. But savers pay with large term deposit rate cuts at the same time
Newshub
Cabinet has decided when alert level 3 will end.
RNZ
Timetable changes, zoom meetings and a lot more hand washing will be features of the new-look schooling awaiting more than 800,000 children and teachers under alert level 2.
Stuff
Modelling said up to 4000 people may have needed a ventilator. We have 868.
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The timing for the completion of a swag of new commercial building projects could not be worse as we stare down the barrel of recession, Greg Ninness says
RNZ
A decision on whether to move to alert level 2 will be announced tomorrow and while businesses are keen, a public health expert says there is no evidence to support the move.
RNZ
Work and Income appears to have spent decades wrongly advising some benefit applicants that they cannot get support until their redundancy has run out.
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President of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, Dr Vanessa Beavis, said staff were extremely anxious about getting sick themselves.
RNZ
Builders are back in business as the construction of state houses and affordable homes ramps up again.
Stuff
New Zealand has long-term problem to avoid importing Covid-19, Swedish expert says.
Newshub
Households set a new internet consumption record in April, each using almost 500 gigabytes of data.
RNZ
The Opposition says newly-released documents show "clear contradictions" in the government's response to Covid-19.
1 NEWS
"We are keen to keep fares affordable in a higher cost per seat environment," the airline's chief revenue officer said.
The Spinoff
For all The Spinoff’s latest coverage of Covid-19 see here. Read Siouxsie Wiles’s work here. New Zealand is currently in alert level three – read The Spinoff’s giant explainer about what that means here. For official government advice, see here. The Spinoff’s coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak is
Newshub
COVID-19 will cause levels of social harm never seen before, it says - unless the Government steps up.
RNZ
The government continues to insist there were no gaps in the enforcement powers of police during the level 4 lockdown, or under level 3.
RNZ
With the prime minister today unveiling the details on level 2, here are all the basic changes you can expect and what rules will apply when we do move.
