Checkpoint

A lifelong friend of a man shot and killed by police in Taranaki two years ago says he was shocked to hear of another fatal shooting.

22-year-old Kaoss Price was shot on Saturday night after he… Read more Audio

Russia has launched an all-out assault on Eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine says Russian troops have started their fight for the Donbas region trying to break into the frontlines of Luhansk, Donetsk and… Read more Audio

It's time to recloak the whenua in native trees or lose more of it to extreme weather events - that's the call from well-known east coaster Manu Caddie.

A series of storms in Tairāwhiti has left… Read more Video, Audio

RNZ deputy editor Craig McCulloch joins Lisa Owen with the latest news from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's trip overseas, first landing in Singapore.

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Australia Zoo has made a last-minute decision to pull the pin on plans to take Burma the elephant from Auckland Zoo.

The 38-year-old was due to live out her twilight years at the zoo across the ditch… Read more Video, Audio

The Prime Minister has been officially welcomed to Singapore as she kicks off her first overseas trip since the pandemic. Jacinda Ardern arrived in the country last night New Zealand time - after… Read more Audio

There are calls for a national inquiry after another worker is killed on the job at Auckland's port.

The worker from private stevedoring firm Wallace Investments died after falling from a height… Read more Video, Audio

The country's two top doctors signed off on a suggestion to end MIQ in November last year.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Dr Caroline McElnay agreed MIQ was no longer justified on public health grounds… Read more Audio

After spending the last five months based in Australia the Phoenix men's football team return home this weekend to play two A-League games.

They'll play at their home ground in Wellington on Sunday… Read more Audio

Some East Coast towns are breathing a sigh of relief they've escaped the worst in the latest big weather event.

But while it wasn't as ferocious as the one three weeks ago, it's still left some… Read more Video, Audio

Nurses pay equity talks may need urgent resuscitation after the Health Minister gave their unions a very public serve. Read more Video, Audio