Checkpoint

Whānau Māori who are going through the family court say they're being ignored by judges, and left to navigate a confusing system without support.

The experiences of 36 people - ranging from parents… Read more Audio

The fight to stop a major international company from taking a billion litres of water a year from the Awaiti Aquifer near Whakatāne has reached the High Court.

Ngāti Awa is appealing the Bay of… Read more Audio

Fiordland is facing up to 40 percent unemployment with many tourism business saying they're unsure about their future.

This year the region has been hit by severe flooding that cut access to Milford… Read more Video, Audio

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

The public gallery was packed for the first day of a judicial review about whether the country was put into level four lockdown lawfully.

The lawyer Andrew Borrowdale is bringing a judicial review… Read more Audio

The government has asked South Korea to do a second Covid-19 test on a person who tested positive after arriving from New Zealand last week.

The person arrived last week after transiting via… Read more Audio

"He has shattered our dreams" - just one of the harrowing victim impact statements read out today as New Zealand's first convicted slave master was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Sixty-six-year-old… Read more Video, Audio

The government has announced a $51 million recovery plan for international education providers - to help cushion the blow dealt by Covid-19.

The sector's been crying out for help because it's missing… Read more Video, Audio

National leader Judith Collins was on a mission to put the bruising Newshub Reid Research poll behind her today.

She was in campaign mode in Palmerston North - speaking to the public, and… Read more Audio

Jono Hartland has spent the past eight months making his way down the country, on foot.

The 25-year-old is hiking the three-thousand kilometre Te Araroa Trail to raise money for mental health causes… Read more Audio

Early childhood teachers say people are leaving the sector in droves because they are so underpaid.

Teachers from 130 centres across the country took part in this morning's first-ever paid stop-work… Read more Audio

An infection prevention and control expert says in a perfect world a dedicated team of nurses would be taking care of people in Covid-19 managed isolation and quarantine facilities.

Dr Sally Roberts… Read more Audio