Checkpoint

With nearly 1,000 cases, four weeks of lockdown and a huge hit to the New Zealand economy - Covid-19 Delta has well and truly thrown the country a giant curveball.

Last month, the government… Read more Video, Audio

As Auckland rolls into lockdown week five, feeding the family is getting harder for some. A major food bank in Auckland says it's packed nearly six thousand boxes of kai, with volunteers shocked by… Read more Video, Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6272612057001 Video, Audio

Every week day teachers across Auckland are running hundreds of virtual lessons for the region's 250,000 school children. Today our education correspondent, John Gerritsen, logged in to see what's… Read more Audio

On Monday morning, those overseas trying to get home will be able to try to nab a place in MIQ through the new system which the government says will make the system fairer.

Instead of endless… Read more Video, Audio

Bad weather is hampering the search for a King Country man and his three children missing on the North Island's rugged west coast.

34-year-old Thomas Phillips and his children Ember, Maverick and… Read more Audio

An unknown number of New Zealand superannuitants risk having their pension payments suspended after getting stuck in Australia when the trans-Tasman bubble burst and the freeze went on managed… Read more Video, Audio

In recent months Checkpoint has asked various government ministers if a mobile 'Mr Whippy'-style ice cream van could be the answer to getting more people vaccinated.

On Tuesday it became a reality… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland Primary Principals Association President Stephen Lethbridge says 93 percent of primary and intermediate schools he has spoken to want the upcoming school holidays to remain the same.

"We've… Read more Video, Audio

Covid-19 numbers have taken a bit of a slide today with 15 new cases in the community - all in Auckland.

There are now 970 cases linked to the delta outbreak but almost 400 of those people have… Read more Audio

More than a million people came together today to share a moment in Te Reo Māori.

It's Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Māori Langauge Week, and the moment is one of the week's pinnacle events.

Jamie Tahana… Read more Audio

While Auckland remains in level four lockdown, the rest of the country is enjoy the relative freedoms of level 2.

And with that - for many people - it means going back to the office.

Hamish Cardwell… Read more Audio