Checkpoint

The medals keep rolling in for the New Zealand team. Sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have just claimed silver in the 49er class in the waters off Japan.

Our reporter Clay Wilson joins us from… Read more Video, Audio

Lisa Carrington has led the charge, literally, at the Tokyo Olympics.

The power house paddler took out two golds - one in the singles, one in the doubles, equaling our most decorated Olympians, with… Read more Video, Audio

Plans for a massive water take to grow more avocados in the Far North could get the green light in the coming weeks, but there are major concerns among some locals about what that will mean for the… Read more Video, Audio

Patients are at risk of harm as a shortage of nurses on Southern District Health Board wards forces some to ration their care.

The problem was unearthed as part of a review into its safe-staffing… Read more Audio

One of the country's best medal hopes will have to wait another day for a shot at gold. Sailors Blair Tuke and Peter Burling are in first place and are gunning for gold in the 49er - but unfavourable… Read more Video, Audio

A pizza and a lie-down. That's how an elated Dame Valerie Adams is celebrating her bronze medal.

It's the shot putter's fifth Olympics and her fourth medal, adding to two golds and a silver.

Dame… Read more Video, Audio

Christchurch's first Pacific church-based vaccination clinic has opened. More than 100 people from the Pasifika community had their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at St Paul's Trinity Pacific… Read more Video, Audio

There are concerns New Zealand's first mass vaccination event did not reach at-risk communities.

More than 15,000 people were jabbed over three days, in what's being lauded a success.

But a South… Read more Audio

A leading economist and a tenants advocate support the push to view housing as a human right.

The Human Rights Commission has announced an inquiry into housing, but some say the road map out of the… Read more Audio

It is time to move away from a "reactive isolationist response" and lower the draw bridge to the outside world, according to one health expert.

In an editorial for the Internal Medicine Journal… Read more Video, Audio

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A future so bright she may need to keep wearing shades, shot putter Maddison-Lee Wesche placed sixth in her final and also delivered a personal best of 18.98 metres.

The 22 -year-old Aucklander… Read more Video, Audio