Checkpoint

The Taranaki Medical Officer of Health says New Zealand finds itself "in the eye of a Covid-19 storm" and more testing is required to discover if there has been undetected transmission in the… Read more Audio

The 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate which caused the fatal explosion first arrived on leaky Russian-registered cargo ship in Lebanon in September 2013. Read more Video, Audio

To Beirut now where Lebanese authorities have arrested 16 people, including the Port manager, as the investigation into Tuesday's fatal explosion which displaced a quarter of a million people… Read more Video, Audio

Oranga Tamariki's bosses have fronted up to the Waitangi Tribunal today to explain why Māori fare so badly in the state care system.

The tribunal's urgent inquiry is underway in Wellington. It comes… Read more Audio

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

A woman has been sentenced to 11 and a half months home detention for the manslaughter of her partner.

A high court judge ruled the years of domestic violence Karen Anne Ruddelle faced, and her… Read more Audio

Nearly 10,000 New Zealanders have had to live in motels over the past three months, with the public housing waitlist up 50 percent on the same time last year.

Latest figures through to the end of… Read more Audio

Nearly 14,000 more people have taken up the wage subsidy last week and more than 466,000 jobs are still being supported by the government's scheme.

The scheme will come to an end in just under a… Read more Video, Audio

Workers on the front line of New Zealand's border at airports, isolation and quarantine facilities should get unlimited sick leave to help keep Covid-19 out of the community, Professor Shaun Hendy… Read more Video, Audio

MPs are now preparing to hit the campaign as Parliament shuts up shop before the general election.

They've spent the afternoon giving their final speeches in the debating chamber.

Here's RNZ deputy… Read more Audio

The delay of a DIY cervical cancer screening test is angering doctors - and they're warning of a looming crisis of undiagnosed cancer.

The test, which women can do themselves, has been promised since… Read more Audio

A special Covid card designed to help with contact tracing will be trialled on a small group of people in Rotorua. The government says the card developed in conjunction with Otago Univeristy and… Read more Video, Audio