Checkpoint

It's the ticket to that summer festival, big bar or maybe even a wedding - the proof of vaccine you may need this summer. A pass to party. All it will cost you is two doses of the Pfizer vaccine… Read more Audio

Residents in Lake Ōhau are rebuilding their lives and homes while slowly restoring the scorched landscape after last year's devastating fire.

Today marks one year since fire tore through the remote… Read more Video, Audio

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today the South Island will remain in alert level two but there has been some reprieve, with a slight easing of restrictions for hospitality… Read more Audio

The government has made it clear without more vaccinations lockdowns are here to stay.

Over the weekend Covid-19 cases popped up in Waikato as Delta jumped the Auckland boundary.

Mainfreight… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland businesses on the brink say they might have to shut up shop or slash staff numbers if the government doesn't offer more financial help.

More than 300 hospitality businesses met virtually at… Read more Audio

The government is pivoting its Covid-19 strategy - laying out a three-step plan for easing Auckland's lockdown restrictions.

Meanwhile National has criticised the announcement, with leader Judith… Read more Audio

An historic appeal into sexual abuse convictions for the former creche worker Peter Ellis has begun today in the country's highest court.

Ellis, who died two years ago, is appealing 13 counts of sex… Read more Video, Audio

The All Blacks secured two spots in the latest MIQ lottery, but wanted more.

Locks Scott Barrett and Patrick Tuipulotu will return to New Zealand from Australia for family reasons.

The rest of the… Read more Audio

A group of health experts are suggesting an Auckland wide freeze on prosecuting people for personal drug use while the city's under strict Covid-19 restrictions.

A think-piece by epidemiologists… Read more Video, Audio

Waiheke Islanders want to break from Auckland's lockdown and bring in a localised border.

The island has never had a case of Covid-19, and locals fear that the easing of alert level restrictions… Read more Audio

A leading epidemiologist says while he has breathed a sigh of relief level 3 is still in place, he thinks the government has gone too far with the stepped transition, and it is too risky.

Professor… Read more Video, Audio

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