Checkpoint

The New Zealand Open has been chopped into the rough, with the golf tournament organisers having to pull pin under the red light.

Tournament chairman John Hart talks to Lisa Owen.

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Two years into the pandemic and with Omicron expected to be widespread in the community soon, New Zealanders are adapting to a 'new normal'.

Our reporters Soumya Bhamidipati and Samuel Rillstone took… Read more Video, Audio

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

New figures show one in seven Catholic clergy who work for a bishop have had abuse complaints laid against them.

The Catholic Church has for the first time publicly released the figures, which show… Read more Audio

The government has announced a big shipment of rapid antigen tests has been secured and will be here in the next two months.

The Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says they've secured an… Read more Audio

It's day one, case one for an Auckland high school that's already dealing with a infected staff member just as students return to the classroom.

But Otāhuhu College's principal says it's time schools… Read more Video, Audio

'I urge her to take it' - the message from the Deputy Prime Minister to pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis - after announcing she's been given a place in MIQ.

Bellis is in Afghanistan, and had been… Read more Audio

Two weeks - that's the deadline a rural contractor is setting the government to follow through with their December promise to allow 200 skilled machinery operators into the country to help with the… Read more Video, Audio

Locals and leaders in Hawke's Bay are making last-ditch attempts to try and stop lower speed limits on the highway between Napier and Taupō.

The speed limit on most of the road is set to change from… Read more Audio

Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal has turned back the clock to power to a historic win in Melbourne.

Nadal, who is 35-years-old, became the first man to claim a 21st Grand Slam title after spending… Read more Audio

New year, new variant, but same old Covid. We're now into a third year living with the virus, but with waning energies about how to deal with Covid among us.

Kim Moodie has a look at the impact of… Read more Audio

As thousands of kids head back to the classroom this week, a rapidly growing number of families are choosing to keep their tamariki at home for school.

Figures from the Ministry for Education show… Read more Video, Audio