Checkpoint

The government is facing a fierce backlash after the bungled quarantine of two returning New Zealand citizens - including calls for the Health Minister to resign.

The Prime Minister has announced she… Read more Video, Audio

A Waikato businessman is continuing to promote and sell chlorine dioxide bleach as a 'miracle' cure for 95 percent of the world's diseases, including Covid-19.

Roger Blake is rubbishing claims that… Read more Video, Audio

Southern Response is back in court today - this time having a final go at arguing that a class action against it should not be an 'opt-out'.

Christchurch residents Brendan and Colleen Ross say the… Read more Audio

Not ambitious or empowering enough - that's a Māori health adviser's diagnosis of a new government report into revamping the health system.

The report recommends setting up a new independent Māori… Read more Video, Audio

Half of New Zealand's district health boards - and all of their elected members - could be be gone under huge health system changes announced on Tuesday.

A report into reforming the country's health… Read more Audio

The ACT Party has announced David Seymour as its Whangārei candidate in the 2020 election, but it's not the David Seymour you are thinking of.

A Whangārei businessman, and namesake of the party's… Read more Video, Audio

An Auckland school is urging students not to retaliate after a brawl left two teenagers with injuries - one of them with a stab wound.

The fight on Friday afternoon involved students from two… Read more Audio

An Auckland mother whose partner has been waiting nearly a year for a visa to meet their baby is appalled a nanny for an America's Cup team has been granted a visa ahead of her child's father.

Under… Read more Video, Audio

A Christchurch man who filmed himself coughing and sneezing on supermarket customers during the nationwide lockdown, has been fined $750 and sent to prison on other charges.

Raymond Gary Coombs was… Read more Video, Audio

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

The second phase of firearms reforms are back on track, after a compromise was reached with New Zealand First.

Last year a law making most semi-automatic firearms illegal passed with near unanimous… Read more Audio

Dr Ayesha Verrall is coming under pressure over her political conflicts of interest just one day into her new life as a high-ranking Labour Party candidate.

Questions continue to be raised about why… Read more Audio