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Construction workers ready to dig in on transport projects

AT has also made advanced payments to contractors to help keep workers employed.

Local Focus: Lockdown giving homeless chance to change

Charities work around the clock to cater for the homeless. Made with funding by NZ On Air.

MediaWorks boss: 'We've had a number of people pick up Covid'

Media company reveals staff have contracted coronavirus.

Top watchdog to inspect rest homes after coronavirus deaths

'I have to act now because several aged care facilities now have clusters of the disease.'

Auckland man has bank card skimmed, despite being home on lockdown

Coronavirus scams on the rise in a bid to prey on vulnerable Kiwis.

Second coronavirus case at Auckland rest home

An elderly man contracts virus two weeks after nurse tested positive at his rest home.

Healthline helps 170,000 Kiwis with Covid-19 advice in a month

Kiwis have flooded health advice lines asking if they've got Covid-19 and seeking help.

Love in the time of coronavirus: Kiwi couples kiss and tell

Cheating rules, new couples forced into lockdown together and home honeymoons.

New lockdown laws: What's officially banned (including swimming) and police powers

It's official: Swimming, surfing and hunting are illegal during the lockdown.

Italian hospital overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases

The main hospital in the city of Bergamo struggled to cope with the high influx of coronavirus patients. Bergamo is the epicenter of the virus outbreak in Italy's hardest-hit region, Lombardy. Video / CGTN

Waikato DHB's interim chief executive Derek Wright

Waikato DHB's interim chief executive Derek Wright talks about his new job. Video/Alan Gibson

PM Jacinda Ardern on palliative care

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spent a few moments dishing up strawberries and ice cream to support a fundraiser for Mary Potter Hospice - and promising to look into more funding for palliative care. Credit: Mark Mitchell

Stunned doctor finds 27 contact lenses in pensioner's eye

Medics find 27 contact lenses that had buried themselves behind the eye of a woman .

Watch NZH Focus: Smokers tighten their purse strings

New Year’s resolutions and a 10% price hike are believed to be behind a massive surge in calls to the national telehealth service Quitline.

Watch NZH Local Focus: Iwi wade into water issue

Hawke's Bay iwi Ngāti Kahungunu say they warned authorities for decades about the risk of water contamination.

Mike's Minute: Health hold ups

Violence in wards on the rise

Hospital staff are being punched, kicked, spat on, bitten and verbally abused daily on the job - and the problem is getting worse.

Editorial: Exercise the answer, not hitting dairies

Editorial: Force-feeding has never been a feature of the humble dairy, yet suddenly it finds itself in the business of public health.