Checkpoint

Firefighters first on the scene are struggling with what they encountered.

The property housed a range of tenants, some of them had lived there for years, others not so long, and many of them were… Read more Video, Audio

A Loafers Lodge resident has described crawling on the floor through thick black smoke and running for his life, to get out of the burning building.

The resident, who didn't want to give his name… Read more Video, Audio

A woman has been charged with murdering two young children in the Northland town of Ruakākā.

The children were found dead in their home yesterday morning, and the woman accused of killing them… Read more Audio

Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau talks to Checkpoint reporter Jimmy Ellingham about the devastating fire at Loafers Lodge on Aidelaide Road.

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Residents of Wellington's Loafers Lodge were woken to plumes of smoke and roaring flames billowing out of the hostel in the early hours of this morning.

Footage sent in to RNZ by one of the residents… Read more Video, Audio

"It doesn't get worse than this." That from a fire commander at the blaze that's claimed multiple lives at Loafer's Lodge on Wellington's Adelaide Road.

The building appears to have caught fire just… Read more Video, Audio

Work is starting on a new intersection to a Defence Force site along a traffic pinch point in the lower North Island.

A roundabout will be built at the entrance to the Ōhakea Air Force base so the… Read more Audio

As Nelson recovers from the devastating August floods - the full extent of slip damage across the region is becoming clearer.

Thirty three homes were damaged by landslide debris that came from… Read more Video, Audio

More than 300 households whose homes were wrecked in the cyclone and Auckland floods, are still waiting to be housed - or are in limbo.

The hold up is partly because the Temporary Accomodation… Read more Audio

In response to the claim that NCEA Level 1 is being "dumbed down", Education Minister Jan Tinetti says she has been told by other schools that the changes to NCEA are "giving a more robust nature to… Read more Video, Audio