[ad_1] Wildfires, high temperatures, a summer of protests, a rogue leader, and a pandemic. This is life on the west coast of the United States. “The next one will be a plague of toads,” says Jody Brettkelly, a New Zealand journalist based in California. But it wasn’t the toads who …
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[ad_1] Health officials are urging staff and students at an Auckland primary school to get tested for Covid-19 after a 10-year-old female student was confirmed to be infectious. It comes when seven new cases of the virus were announced yesterday, bringing the total number of active cases to 77. LISTEN …
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[ad_1] Britain imposed stricter restrictions on Thursday (local time) on individuals and businesses in parts of northeast England as the nation tries to stem the spread of Covid-19 before the coldest winter months. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the UK House of Commons that the new measures would include banning …
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[ad_1] The Detail is a daily news podcast produced for RNZ by Press room and is posted on Stuff with permission. Click on this link to subscribe to the podcast. Wildfires, high temperatures, a summer of protests, a rogue leader, and a pandemic. This is life on the west coast …
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[ad_1] ACT leader David Seymour vows to radically change the way New Zealand is governed, with a program of spending cuts and tax cuts that would reduce the size of government. In Seymour’s alternative budget, given to Stuff, he charts a drastic path of debt reduction, with the goal of …
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[ad_1] An 18-month delay in the diagnosis of bowel cancer for Queenstown’s father, Jeremy MacGillivray, may have cost him his life. Now the 41-year-old is struggling longer with his wife Ayako, son Chris, 8, and non-verbal autistic daughter Nicola, 5. “I have a bad outlook but I’m going to squeeze …
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[ad_1] A man who spent two weeks in controlled isolation claims his hotel was “a horrible place” with cracked walls, mold, broken furniture, torn curtains, and a blocked shower drain. The Auckland man, who only wanted to be known as Mark, also said he was not surprised when a person …
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[ad_1] An “agile” body created to run the nation’s 16 polytechnic schools will pay its seven top officials at least $ 2.3 million in its first year and has spent $ 1.3 million on consultants in its first six months. The New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (NZIST) has …
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[ad_1] CHLOE RANFORD / LDR Double Bay residents, left to right, Vic Koller, Kevin Wilson, Kathryn Omond and Matthew Omond asked the council to close the Freedom campground in their bay. Keeping a wild camping site open in the Marlborough Sounds violates national rules that require protection of the “friendliness” …
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[ad_1] 1. What is a recession? A recession is a period of economic contraction. What usually happens is that consumer spending falls, unemployment rises, and business investment falls. A technical definition of recession is two consecutive quarters of negative quarterly GDP growth. GDP declines during the March and June 2020 …
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