Checkpoint

Auckland's mayor is keen for the government to pitch in for a campaign encouraging out-of-towners to holiday in the super city - despite it being home to our biggest Covid-19 cluster and most of the… Read more Video, Audio

A man in his 50s who had Covid-19 has died in Middlemore Hopsital.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed he was linked to the Auckland cluster - it takes New Zealand's Covid-19 death toll to 23.

The… Read more Audio

Japanese rescue crews have recovered a body, and a number of cattle floating at sea, as they try to find the live stock ship, believed to have sunk, south of Japan.

The ship disappeared in the East… Read more Video, Audio

Human remains found entombed under an old Auckland villa have finally been identified - but the mystery of what happened and how they got there still lingers.

Police were called to a suburban street… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand has had its hottest winter on record according to to official NIWA data.

So what does that mean for springtime or even summer?

NIWA forecaster Chris Brandolino talks to Lisa Owen. Read more Video, Audio

A huge fire near Auckland Airport this morning has destroyed the office of a campervan business, and several campervans.

Richard Pearse Drive and surrounding roads were closed, causing heavy traffic… Read more Video, Audio

Politicians were back on the road after a false start to the election campaign and National is promising a big spend-up on young parents.

Under its proposal, all pregnant women would be given $3,000… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister wants New Zealand to be the best place in the world to grow up - but UNICEF's latest child wellbeing rankings have the country among the worst performing in the developed world.

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

"Just hang in there and give it some time" - that advice to a woman in managed isolation who has been in excruciating pain, vomiting and crying for days.

Josephine, a New Zealander who returned from… Read more Audio

Hundreds of Accident and Emergency centres and GP clinics across the country have been affected by strike action by more than 3,000 primary care nurses today.

Lunch-time rallies took place in… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister is managing expectations over the next step in the Covid-19 alert levels, which she will announce on Friday.

Jacinda Ardern says Cabinet will err on the side of caution when making… Read more Audio