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6:14 PM.The most at-risk workers at the Ports of Auckland have lined up for their Covid-19 vaccinations today, with most saying they barely felt a scratch.

There has been at least one community outbreak… Read more Video, Audio

6:07 PM.Auckland will join the rest of the country in Covid-19 alert level 1 from midnight, but is there a better option than a large scale lockdown if or when there's another outbreak?

For Tāmaki Makaurau… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.The Corrections Minister has asked Corrections for its side of the story, after a judge ruled inmates at Auckland Women's Prison were treated in a degrading and inhumane way.

Manukau District Court… Read more Audio

5:49 PM.A man has told a court he believes his drink was spiked by what he calls a "predatory" and "utterly creepy" businessman.

The businessman, who has name suppression, is accused of indecently assaulting… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.Just one CTV employee who was in the building during the February 22 earthquake managed to escape before it came down.

For Maryanne Jackson, the pain of losing 16 colleagues has been compounded by… Read more Video, Audio

5:37 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6234235696001 Video, Audio

5:28 PM.As the tide rises, rescuers are racing to refloat 40 whales stranded at Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island.

The long-finned pilot whales were spotted on the beach at 9.30am and a team of… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.Scarce supplies and the cost of personal protective equipment is prompting some dentists to up their prices.

Now they are calling for government support to fund and source high level PPE to avoid… Read more Audio

5:17 PM.Thousands of people in Christchurch and around the country paused at 12.51 on Monday afternoon to mark a decade since the February 22 magnitude 6.3 earthquake which claimed 185 lives.

It was 10 years… Read more Video, Audio

5:06 PM.From midnight Auckland will join the rest of Aotearoa at Covid-19 alert level 1. Auckland was plunged into a level 3 lockdown for three days, and everywhere else went to level 2, after three Covid-19… Read more Video, Audio

6:23 PM.Could this be the purrrfect ending to the tale of roaming Rodney aka the abandoned ITM cat?

It seems he has finally been found and given a forever home after going missing for about four months.

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6:17 PM.Ten years after his wife and 114 others died in the CTV building collapse, Maan Alkaisi remains as determined as ever to see justice served.

Alkaisi has for the last decade acted as the vocal voice… Read more Video, Audio

6:13 PM.Police are cracking down on gangs, with the launch of a nationwide operation to disrupt and prevent firearms-related gang violence.

Operation Tauwhiro is a long-term co-ordinated operation focusing… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.As the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out begins, there are fears disinformation will put Māori and Pasifika off getting the jab.

A Horizon Research and University of Auckland study has found those… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.The country's Covid vaccine roll-out is officially underway, with a small group of vaccinators getting the Pfizer jab today.

Just 25 people - mostly nurses - received their inoculation at Auckland's… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.For most of us, dreams of becoming an overnight millionaire are just that. Not for New Zealand cricket's fastest rising star Kyle Jamieson.

The Black Caps fast bowler is set to be almost $3 million… Read more Audio

5:49 PM.There are calls to bring in new rules around e-scooters - after it was found users were more likely to be hospitalised than cyclists.

Research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal compares… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.Locals have described it as the jewel in Dunedin's crown, and today the city council unveiled a possible future for Ocean Beach.

Covering more than three kilometres from St Clair to St Kilda, the… Read more Video, Audio

5:39 PM.It has been revealed one of the men on trial over the Red Fox Tavern murder more than 30 years ago was jailed for a similar robbery several years earlier.

Forty-three-year-old father of two Chris… Read more Video, Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6233570735001 Video, Audio

5:19 PM.Ten years since the deadly Christchurch quake, which devastated the city on February 22, Dr Lydia Johns Putra tells Lisa Owen about her experience of saving the life of Brian Coker.

He was trapped in… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.On Thursday's edition of Checkpoint, Christchurch man Brian Shaw told us about his terminal cancer and his desire to get his decade-long insurance claim with Vero settled before he dies.

On Friday… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.The first Covid-19 vaccines have been given in New Zealand, with 100 vaccinators first in-line to receive a dose.

They will roll up their sleeves again on Saturday as they begin vaccinating… Read more Video, Audio

5:06 PM.In Auckland's CBD it appears the lights are on but nobody is there.

The impact of this week's third inner city lockdown in a year is being so widely felt some businesses say if they cannot get rent… Read more Video, Audio

6:19 PM.Period products will soon be free for all primary, intermediate, secondary school and kura students.

More than 3,000 students in Waikato have already been receiving the products as part of a trial of… Read more Audio