Checkpoint

The Resource Management Act is destined for the scrap heap but its main replacement is two years away.

Successive governments have grappled with the complex and cumbersome planning law that was… Read more Audio

Apple growers fear they're about to face carnage as the picking season hits its peak in the next few weeks.

With borders closed, overseas workers are slim pickings, and locals are just as hard to… Read more Audio

The recent lead contamination scare in east Otago has raised the question, how safe are New Zealanders with their drinking water?

The technical manager at industry group Water NZ says he would not… Read more Video, Audio

The new boss of Wellington Rugby League says the future of the game is with Māori and Pasifika communities.

About 200 people turned out to support the mihi whakatau ceremony for Andre Whittaker - who… Read more Audio

Air New Zealand's CEO Greg Foran has confirmed to Checkpoint the contract with the Saudi military has now been terminated.

In 2019 the airline's gas turbines unit was contracted to work on parts… Read more Audio

South Africa's put the brakes on its roll out of a million doses of the Astra-Zeneca Oxford Vaccine - despite a surge in new Covid-19 cases there.

It comes after showing in some cases it had little… Read more Video, Audio

Hundreds of members of Auckland iwi Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei held a hīkoi this morning, frustrated at the Crown's overlapping treaty settlement claim process.

They walked along the city's waterfront to… Read more Audio

A public health specialist says the maximum allowable level of nitrate in drinking water should be 11 times lower than current rules allow.

Otago University's Dr Tim Chambers is part of a Ministry of… Read more Audio

A trial is underway for one of the country's most well known cold cases.

More than 30 years after Waikato publican and father-of-two Chris Bush was shot dead during a robbery at the Red Fox Tavern in… Read more Audio

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East Otago residents have been getting tested for lead poisoning today, after discovering their water supply was contaminated.

Last Tuesday, residents in Waikouaiti and Karitane were first told about… Read more Video, Audio

Parliament's dress code debate was reignited on Tuesday as Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi entered the House, not wearing a European-style tie.

Waititi, wearing a hei tiki taonga around his… Read more Video, Audio