Checkpoint

The country's Covid vaccine roll-out is officially underway, with a small group of vaccinators getting the Pfizer jab today.

Just 25 people - mostly nurses - received their inoculation at Auckland's… Read more Audio

For most of us, dreams of becoming an overnight millionaire are just that. Not for New Zealand cricket's fastest rising star Kyle Jamieson.

The Black Caps fast bowler is set to be almost $3 million… Read more Audio

There are calls to bring in new rules around e-scooters - after it was found users were more likely to be hospitalised than cyclists.

Research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal compares… Read more Audio

Locals have described it as the jewel in Dunedin's crown, and today the city council unveiled a possible future for Ocean Beach.

Covering more than three kilometres from St Clair to St Kilda, the… Read more Video, Audio

It has been revealed one of the men on trial over the Red Fox Tavern murder more than 30 years ago was jailed for a similar robbery several years earlier.

Forty-three-year-old father of two Chris… Read more Video, Audio

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Ten years since the deadly Christchurch quake, which devastated the city on February 22, Dr Lydia Johns Putra tells Lisa Owen about her experience of saving the life of Brian Coker.

He was trapped in… Read more Video, Audio

On Thursday's edition of Checkpoint, Christchurch man Brian Shaw told us about his terminal cancer and his desire to get his decade-long insurance claim with Vero settled before he dies.

On Friday… Read more Video, Audio

The first Covid-19 vaccines have been given in New Zealand, with 100 vaccinators first in-line to receive a dose.

They will roll up their sleeves again on Saturday as they begin vaccinating… Read more Video, Audio

In Auckland's CBD it appears the lights are on but nobody is there.

The impact of this week's third inner city lockdown in a year is being so widely felt some businesses say if they cannot get rent… Read more Video, Audio

Period products will soon be free for all primary, intermediate, secondary school and kura students.

More than 3,000 students in Waikato have already been receiving the products as part of a trial of… Read more Audio

The gates are firmly shut to international tourists at the moment, and the government is being told to use this time wisely.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says tourism is putting… Read more Audio