Checkpoint

Two losses on the trot is not something an All Blacks coach is used to. But that's the reality for Ian Foster, who is facing the heat after a disappointing northern tour.

A loss to South Africa last… Read more Audio

All of New Zealand will move to the Covid-19 traffic light framework on December 3.

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins talks through the details with Lisa Owen.

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The final nail is in the coffin for New Zealand's only oil refinery.

Refining NZ today confirmed Marsden Point will close next year and instead move to an import only terminal.

That will end 60… Read more Audio

Police say a 70-year old Auckland woman missing for 12 days was found alone, inside an address, extremely dehydrated.

They don't believe foul play was involved in Cindy Li's disappearance, and say… Read more Audio

All of New Zealand will move to the traffic light Covid-19 Protection framework on December 3, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.

From 11:59 P-M Thursday 2 December, Auckland will move into… Read more Video, Audio

A jetset Chrismas might be off the cards, but a jet pack one still could be.

A Trade Me bidding war is raging over the chance to own a piece of New Zealand history, and become the proud owner of one… Read more Video, Audio

Cantabrians are hoping the end is in sight for a major post quake build, as contractors work around Covid construction delays.

One of Christchurch's main post-quake anchor projects, Parakiore, or the… Read more Audio

$10 million has been set aside to develop a vaccine for strep-throat - a precursor to rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.

Last year more than a hundred people were hospitalised for the first… Read more Audio

Community nerves are running high in west Auckland after two shootings in as many weeks.

Four people have been charged with murder after father-of-two Robert Hart was shot dead in a New Lynn driveway… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister has made her first trip to the South Island since Delta arrived on New Zealand's shores, today visiting Christchurch to push the vaccine message.

Jacinda Arden was in Woolston -… Read more Video, Audio

A South Island mayor wants the trans-Tasman bubble re-inflated saying Aucklanders pose a similar Covid risk as Australian travellers.

From 15 December, fully vaccinated people will be able to travel… Read more Audio

A chatter of parakeets can be heard at Auckland Zoo, rare ones at that. Eleven kākāriki karaka, or orange-fronted parakeets, have been hatched there in the past few weeks and more are expected.

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