Checkpoint

If you want to know who will win this year's election, you could do worse than ask the residents of Birkdale - a suburb on Auckland's North Shore.

For at least four elections in a row, Birkenhead… Read more Audio

Back home now and Judith Collins has moved to crush any talk of descent in Nationals ranks following allegations she's making up policy on the fly.

A leaked email shows one of her own MPs was less… Read more Audio

During his hospital stay President Trump has recieved experimental treatment not yet available to others infected with Covid-19 and a cocktail of drugs that doctors believe may never have been used in… Read more Video, Audio

In a tightly choreographed exit, broadcast live with all the angles and drama of a blockbuster movie, US President Donald Trump left the Walter Reed Medical Centre outside of Washington where he has… Read more Video, Audio

Ōhau resident Viv Smith-Campbell still has bruised knuckles from pounding on doors, urging residents and visitors to leave as flames sped toward the tiny village in the middle of the night.

She and… Read more Video, Audio

Wellington's beloved ecosanctuary Zealandia is mounting a large scale trapping and surveillance effort after someone deliberately cut a hole in its predator free fence.

The 225 hectare sanctuary is… Read more Audio

The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of a Comanchero gang leader.

Pasilika Naufahu and his fellow member, Connor Clausen, deny money laundering and conspiring to supply the class… Read more Audio

In 2017 Labour campaigned on transformative change in the justice sector, promising to target the causes of crime, and the cycle of reoffending.

It held a Justice Summit in 2018 that delved into all… Read more Audio

The Department of Conservation has been accused of mismanging and neglecting land at Lake Ohau, where fires have been raging.

At least 50 structures have been deemed uninhabitable.

Farmers who live… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland's move from level two to level one has been met with overwhelming support from residents strolling Queen Street this afternoon.

Checkpoint reporter Nick Truebridge and camerman Nick Monro… Read more Video, Audio

Gay conversion therapy will be banned by Labour if it is re-elected to government.

The pseudoscience claims to be able to suppress or change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and is… Read more Video, Audio

Police are warning landline users about a surge in people being conned out of thousands of dollars by phone scammers.

Three men in Auckland, aged in their 20s and 30s, have been charged in relation… Read more Video, Audio