Checkpoint

The 100,000 Aucklanders who work in the central business district are being told to work from home tomorrow if possible, as officials race to contain a mystery case of Covid-19.

The latest community… Read more Video, Audio

Workers in Auckland's CBD are being asked to stay at home on Friday if at all possible as Health authorities race to find the source of a new community case of Covid-19.

A woman in her 20s returned a… Read more Video, Audio

Four days in and the scale of the damage from Monday's storm in Napier is still unclear.

Sixty-seven homes have been deemed unfit to live in, of which 22 are severely damaged by either slips or… Read more Video, Audio

An economist is predicting the rise of generation rent as house prices reach record levels.

The latest figures from the monthly house price index shows house prices have increased by almost 20… Read more Audio

There was shock and confusion at the Auckland apartment block where the country's latest community case of Covid-19 lives.

With no health officials on site, it was left to media to break the news to… Read more Video, Audio

A Covid-19 modeller who provides advice to the government says if the virus has been circulating for a while there could be a few dozen cases in the community.

Physics academic and Covid-19 modeller… Read more Video, Audio

Health authorities are racing to find the source of a new community case of Covid-19, but right now they have no idea where the Auckland student caught the virus.

The woman in her twenties has no… Read more Video, Audio

Millions of online digital communications are being preserved to create a snapshot of Aotearoa's response to Covid-19.

The National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library collection includes… Read more Video, Audio

Wellington city councillors are in a tense meeting to decide whether to proceed with the sale and lease of a couple of controversial pieces of land at Shelly Bay.

They're discussing the future of the… Read more Audio

Multiple mechanics say the bus involved in a fatal crash on Mt Ruapehu was mechanically sound, and pointed towards driver error.

The inquest into the death of 11-year-old Hannah Francis is into its… Read more Audio

A Northland farmer has been found guilty of mistreating rodeo animals after a group of lawyers took a private prosecution against him because the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) would not. 

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A mass brawl and numerous serious alcohol-related incidents in New Plymouth have been pinned on the city's alcohol control bylaw lapsing.

Police learned the bylaw was unenforceable in March - but it… Read more Audio