Checkpoint

Contrary to popular opinion Mount Taranaki is neither extinct nor dormant - but an active volcano with a 50 percent chance of erupting within the next 50 years.

New modelling's revealed a significant… Read more Audio

Don Braid is the managing director of Mainfreight. He explains the difficulties of getting goods from ship to shore to shop floor. Read more Video, Audio

Retailers are grappling with huge demand ahead of Christmas, but Covid-19 has put the brakes on goods arriving on these shores.

Nearly 50 percent of retailers are expecting stock shortages ahead of… Read more Audio

Nurses working in managed isolation and quarantine are considering walking off the job if they cant get better specialised masks to wear when dealing with potentially infectious returnees.

Their… Read more Video, Audio

The ripple effect of Auckland's latest community case created more pain for CBD businesses today.

A number of business owners are still recovering from consecutive lockdowns earlier this year, and… Read more Video, Audio

Professor Shaun Hendy is a physics academic at the University of Auckland and a Covid-19 modeller.

He talks to Lisa Owen about the latest information following the new Covid-19 community case. Read more Video, Audio

Aucklanders can breathe a sigh of relief, for now at least, after genome testing overnight revealed a direct link between an Auckland student with Covid-19 and a defence worker at the Jet Park… Read more Audio

It's been bogged down in legal battles for years, but a decision has been made, a $500 million coastal housing development in Wellington is one step closer.

The winners include the developers and… Read more Audio

Covid-19 forced some students to ditch their studies to look for work and support families hit hard by lockdown and redundancies.

Today, the Ara Education Charitable Trust and students from 15 south… Read more Audio

The 100,000 Aucklanders who work in the central business district are being told to work from home tomorrow if possible, as officials race to contain a mystery case of Covid-19.

The latest community… Read more Video, Audio

Workers in Auckland's CBD are being asked to stay at home on Friday if at all possible as Health authorities race to find the source of a new community case of Covid-19.

A woman in her 20s returned a… Read more Video, Audio

Four days in and the scale of the damage from Monday's storm in Napier is still unclear.

Sixty-seven homes have been deemed unfit to live in, of which 22 are severely damaged by either slips or… Read more Video, Audio