Checkpoint

Pharmac is apologising to thousands of women who will be forced to change oral contraceptives because supplies of some pill brands are about to run out.

About 25,000 women take the four contraceptive… Read more Video, Audio

Wellington is poised to host the country's first international sporting event since the Covid-19 pandemic, when the All Blacks face off against the Wallabies on Sunday.

Despite the dirth of… Read more Audio

An investigation is underway after a woman escaped managed isolation through a fire escape while security guards were quote "elsewhere".

The woman who arrived in New Zealand on a flight from Dubai on… Read more Video, Audio

Delays and confusion over testing of the Covid Card mean the technology has yet to make it to the wider public, despite the Health Minister saying trials were underway.

A Rotorua-based trial of the… Read more Audio

Justice advocates fear changes to help reduce Māori incarceration rates have lost momentum.

Currently Māori make up more than half of the prison population - and nearly half of those released from… Read more Audio

Music venues and theatres in Auckland can fling their doors open again, now that the city is back to Covid-19 alert level 1.

They've endured more than six months of uncertainty, the inability to… Read more Audio

It's steady as she goes for Labour and a slight drop for National in the latest 1 News Colmar Brunton poll.

Numbers show Labour is still out in front but will need the help of the Greens to govern.

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Farmers sick of shooing intruders off their properties are demanding answers after some tracks were wrongly marked as roads on Google Maps.

The tech giant's conceded private tracks and driveways have… Read more Audio

While Labour and National are aspiring for first prize, Act and the Greens are racing for the bronze medal.

According to recent polling, both parties are neck and neck to take the third biggest party… Read more Audio

Despite a return to level one, and some workers returning to the office, small businesses are sceptical that all their clientele will be coming back.

Auckland's eight-week-long restrictions came to… Read more Audio

The man who was convicted of murdering two women at the Ashburton Work and Income office has argued he was not fit to stand trial.

Russell John Tully was found guilty in 2016 of fatally shooting… Read more Audio

It has been revealed two people charged in the New Zealand First Foundation electoral funding case allegedly used a fraudulent trick to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars and that money was then… Read more Video, Audio