Checkpoint

A surprise visit has revealed a prison designed to help rehabilitate prisoners is instead keeping them locked down for up to 23 hours a day - with little access to education and rehab programmes.

A… Read more Video, Audio

Queenstown tourist operators need an exact date for quarantine-free travel with Australia so they can ramp back up after cutting staff and services in the wake of Covid-19 and the closed border -… Read more Video, Audio

How would you say hello in Invercargill?

Thanks to a new Fijian language school, bula vinaka may soon be a common greeting in the south.

Our Otago-Southland reporter, Timothy Brown, went along for a… Read more Video, Audio

Rugby star Codie Taylor's latest athletic feat will take little longer than 80 minutes.

The All Black hooker's swapped his black jersey and rugby ball for cycling shorts and an excerise bike.

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After two years of campaigning, a community group opposed to the development of a large landfill in north Auckland has finally had their case officially heard today.

The group - Fight the Tip, Save… Read more Audio

A woman who had a stroke while visiting New Zealand has exposed questions about who pays for the treatment of patients who are ineligible for publicly-funded healthcare.

Chinese woman Ms Jing, whose… Read more Audio

It's well and truly supposed to be summer by now - but Otago was heading towards a white Christmas this morning.

Parts of Central Otago, Southland and Queenstown woke to freezing temperatures and… Read more Video, Audio

A man who was abused in both state and church-based care says pent-up frustration over what happened to him prompted him to stab a convicted paedophile in prison.

Roy Takiaho gave evidence today to… Read more Audio

Hopes are now gone that thousands of tonnes of toxic waste may be removed from Mataura by Christmas.

The Environment Court is trying to mediate a resolution between the Environmental Defence Society… Read more Audio

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

Armed with just a baseball bat, a Hastings Dairy owner has managed to chase off a would be robber waving what appears to be a gun straight at her.

Police do not recommend this as a standard approach… Read more Video, Audio

A half century from Henry Nicholls has helped the Black Caps recover from a wobbly start in their second test against the West Indies.

At lunch, New Zealand were 82 for 3 - and have spent the… Read more Audio