Checkpoint

As political parties hit the final week of the campaign National leader Judith Collins isn't backing down on her wealth tax attack on Labour.

Collins says a Labour-Green government would introduce a… Read more Video, Audio

The government's agreed to let 250 international post graduate students back into New Zealand under a special exemption scheme.

The students will have to complete the mandatory two weeks isolation in… Read more Video, Audio

Helping students to earn money to live on while studying and extra support for mental health are two areas Pacific tertiary students want given more attention.

Universities NZ figures show there were… Read more Audio

A sexual abuse survivor group believes research about sexual assaults on university students is conservative.

A study by the New Zealand Medical Journal found 28 percent of students surveyed had… Read more Audio

Family Planning was not planning for an unprecedented shortage of oral contraceptives, but its now faced with supplies of four brands running out in the next few weeks.

And it is warning women to… Read more Video, Audio

The first All Blacks team of the year has been named and while three uncapped players will debut from the bench, the match day 23 is a largely predictable side for Sunday's Bledisloe Cup opener in… Read more Audio

Motels and accomodation providers receiving millions of dollars in emergency housing payments from the government have also claimed tens of thousands of dollars in wage subsidies.

One Auckland… Read more Audio

Wellington's environment and conservation efforts are under siege after a spate of malicious or ignorant attacks.

A wildlife sanctuary's fence has been slashed, large bags of bread were ditched and… Read more Audio

Part of a grandmother's crockpot is among the little left of a Lake Ōhau home lost in one of the most destructive fires the country has ever seen.

Fire and Emergency's contained the fire at Lake… Read more Audio

Debris thought to be from the missing cargo ship, Gulf Livestock one, has been found close to where it sank near the Tokara Islands, in Japan.

It's raised the hopes of family members, including two… Read more Audio

Days before Jacinda Ardern changed the election date to October, the Electoral Commission warned they'd struggle to make the date work.

The latest tranche of documents on the governement's Covid-19… Read more Audio

While party leaders are still traversing the country trying to sell their message, hundreds of thousands of people have already cast their vote - well in advance of the election.

Voting is up more… Read more Audio