Checkpoint

The jury in the High Court murder trial of Venod Skantha has retired to decide if the former Dunedin Hospital doctor is guilty.

The 32-year-old denies killing 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush in her… Read more Audio

The Samoa Red Cross says people in the Pacific nation are panicking, with 32 people confirmed dead from measles.

There are almost 2,500 people infected, with 176 of them in hospital.

There has been… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland Council's sending enforcement officers out to the Waitakere and Hunua Ranges this summer to catch any law flouters who use closed tracks and risk spreading the deadly Kauri dieback disease.

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National has revealed it would expect judges to hand out tougher sentences if it's in power, even though the judiciary is independent and should not be swayed by the government.

Among the party's law… Read more Video, Audio

A protest aboard an oil drilling ship at the Port of Timaru has come to an end, with police forced to build a scaffolding tower to arrest the remaining protestors.

The Greenpeace protest began early… Read more Video, Audio

A Pasifika woman now living in Flaxmere in Hawke's Bay is thankful she's escaped a mouldy and damp nightmare rental property that was meant to be her first slice of kiwi paradise.

Tala-lelei Hefa… Read more Video, Audio

The Health Minister has called out the Hepatitis Foundation over extravagant expenses and gross mismanagement, saying it's unacceptable.

The regulator, Charities Services, completed its investigation… Read more Audio

Secondary school principals around New Zealand are increasingly worried by delays to regulate the vaping industry.

More than 60 health, community and school organisations have written an open letter… Read more Audio

The government's sending a warning to motorists with faulty airbags - if you don't get them fixed, you won't be getting a warrant of fitness.

The Takata Alpha airbags have caused injuries and… Read more Audio

New Zealand Cricket says if it finds the person accused of racially abusing English paceman Jofra Archer, it will refer them to the police and ban them for life.

The 24-year-old bowler says he was… Read more Audio

Samoa's measles epidemic has killed 32 people. It's the second day in a row the death toll has increased - all but four of the deaths are children under the age of four.

And a mass vaccination… Read more Video, Audio