Checkpoint

Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare has told many DHBs they need to do better in their vaccine rollout to Māori. 

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To Australia, where an urgent search for a missing four-year-old girl feared abducted is being hampered by extreme weather.

Cleo Smith went missing from a campsite in a rural area on the coast of… Read more Video, Audio

All Black hooker Codie Taylor choked back tears at an emotional All Blacks press conference today as he paid tribute to his teammate Sean Wainui.

25-year-old Wainui, who played for the Māori All… Read more Audio

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As Te Tai Tokerau prepares to move down alert levels, a Whangārei doctor is pleading with people to get vaccinated - saying the effects of not doing so, will be absolutely devastating.

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An Auckland theatre has drawn the curtains on the 2021 season - saying even level two would be too hard to operate in.

The Basement Theatre in the central city hosts performances from theatre makers… Read more Video, Audio

Labour and National have put their differences aside to slash red tape around housing density, with the aim of making it easier and cheaper to build new homes.

New rules will allow up to three… Read more Audio

The peak of Canterbury's social calendar has been scrapped this year - with the Addington Cup Week closed to the public for the first time in more than a century.

It's the latest in a slew of… Read more Video, Audio

It's a record there is no medal for - 94 new cases of Covid Delta in the community.

Eighty-seven of those are in Auckland and seven in Waikato. It is the highest daily case count the country has… Read more Audio

PhD students say it's unfair and short-sighted for the government to exclude them from the new fast-track residence policy.

They say they're being ignored even though they're highly-skilled and have… Read more Audio

Health authorities are warning vaccination rates aren't high enough to loosen restrictions yet as they chase down the half a million unvaccinated people.

Auckland's just a whisker short of the 90… Read more Audio

There's mixed feelings in the South Island over the government's continued decision to hold at alert level 2 despite more than a year since the last community Covid case.

Some say the safety-first… Read more Audio