Checkpoint

It's about as 'Kiwi' as jandals & pavlova - summer days with kids sliding belly first through piles of mud at the Urenui flats in Taranaki.

But a local school conservation project has discovered… Read more Audio

Work to complete the fire damaged International Convention Centre in central Auckland is expected to begin again in February.

Fletcher Building told shareholders at this mornings annual meeting that… Read more Video, Audio

The young man who put his hand down the pants of two teenagers at a Young Labour summer camp has been discharged without conviction.

The 21-year-old stood trial in September after pleading not guilty… Read more Audio

A Waikato gang has come out strongly against proposed changes to guns laws, calling them racist, undemocratic and poorly thought out.

In what was a first, the Waikato Mongrel Mob Kingdom has made a… Read more Audio

A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and her young daughter and hid their bodies under a bridge in Auckland is appealing his prison sentence.

Kamal Reddy killed Pakeeza Yusuf in late 2006 by… Read more Audio

Speed limits around the country's schools will be reduced to make streets safer for students, with more speed cameras planned to enforce the change.

Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter… Read more Video, Audio

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

Fletcher Building is signalling a resolution over the Ihumātao land dispute is imminent, but won't be drawn on who it could sell the land to or for how much.

Fletcher fronted several hundred of its… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has apologised "wholeheartedly" to the families of the 257 people lost in the Erebus disaster for the first time, in a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the… Read more Video, Audio

Key documents about a mysterious foundation loaning money to New Zealand First have been leaked to RNZ detailing why the New Zealand First Foundation was set up, how it would operate and who knew… Read more Video, Audio

Checkpoint's Alex Perottet and Logan Church are in Samoa, where 39 people so far have died after contracting measles.

Alex Perrottet has the latest details. Read more Video, Audio

In Samoa the death toll from the country's measles epidemic has risen to 39, following six more deaths in the past 24 hours.

It is the third day in a row the deaths have risen, as the government… Read more Video, Audio