Checkpoint

Allegations of sabotage, half-baked ideas, shameful distractions and leading the public down the proverbial garden path.

Some provincial rugby unions and New Zealand Rugby have hit out hard at a… Read more Video, Audio

To Dunedin, where trans-Tasman Super Rugby will make a return for the first time since mid-March last year when the season was canned due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Tonight the Highlanders… Read more Video, Audio

An 82 year old Matamata man has been given home detention over the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact.

Roy Morton pleaded guilty in the High Court in Hamilton and has been sentenced to… Read more Audio

The government's announced big changes to the KiwiSaver scheme which it hopes will give people better bang for its buck.

From December, the number of default providers - those allocated to new… Read more Audio

Disgusted craft beer bars and retailers say they'll no longer stock a Canterbury brewery's range, after its owner posted an anti-Maori rant on social media.

The comments from Eagle Brewing owner… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6254159556001 Video, Audio

A close friend of David McPhail says he felt his 'soul go back down through the mattress' when he woke to news he'd passed away this morning.

Actor and writer Peter Rowley worked alongside comedy… Read more Audio

A 'Robin Hood' policy, redistributing the big salaries of public service chief executives to lower paid workers would be more effective than the government-ordered pay freeze, according to a leading… Read more Video, Audio

You might be able to buy a slice of the All Blacks for as little as $100, according to the investment firm behind the alternative proposal from the Rugby Players Association.

As you heard the plan… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand Rugby is accusing the Players Association of trying to sabotage its deal with US private equity firm Silverlake.

A Players Association proposal, put together by investment firm Forsyth… Read more Audio

The Director-General of Health has revealed students 12 years and older could get their Covid-19 jabs in a school-based vaccination prorgramme starting at the end of Term 3.

And in a pre-Budget… Read more Video, Audio

Protesters sang their displeasure about water quality up to those sitting inside the offices of the Canterbury Regional Council today.

About 200 gathered at lunchtime to let the council know what… Read more Audio