Checkpoint

The Workplace Relations Minister isn't ruling out lifting the minimum wage in line with the living wage.

A new report from the Helen Clark Foundation and the New Zealand Institute of Economic… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

New Zealand au pair agencies say they will go under unless the government gives them an exemption to bring in overseas workers, which they say allows essential employees like nurses and doctors to do… Read more Video, Audio

A former Dunedin doctor found guilty of killing teenager Amber-Rose Rush continues to deny he was the murderer.

Venod Skantha was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 19… Read more Video, Audio

After weeks of defiance, or some would argue, denial, Donald Trump has started making steps towards conceding defeat.

He has authorised the federal agency that handles the transition of power to… Read more Video, Audio

A human rights lawyer says Corrections appears to have broken the law by keeping two women in a segregation unit at Auckland Women's Prison for four months in conditions likened to those of caged… Read more Video, Audio

The government is looking to conscript the Reserve Bank to help check the skyrocketing price of housing in New Zealand.

The central bank's been copping some blame as cheap credit driven by record low… Read more Audio

A South Auckland councillor is calling for more youth workers in the area after a series of shootings during the weekend. There were six gang-related incidents in Otara on Friday and Saturday - five… Read more Video, Audio