Checkpoint

A former Australian detective has ridiculed the National Party's zero-tolerance approach to gangs, saying the strategy has been a disaster across the ditch.

The Opposition is pitching a police unit -… Read more Video, Audio

Transpower says it is still trying to figure out what caused a massive power outage to the top of the North Island on Wednesday.

A circuit supplying power to Northland and the Far North tripped… Read more Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described the opening of a Suicide Prevention Office a "bitter-sweet milestone".

The office was one of the key recommendations of the Mental Health and Addiction… Read more Audio

The Rodeo Association says the cancellation of one its summer events is a blip, not a trend, and is confident rodeo's popularity is not waning in the face of opposition.

Animal welfare group SAFE… Read more Audio

There's been another death in Samoa's measles epidemic, bringing the toll to 33.

All but four of the deaths are children - under the age of four - including one who died in the past day.

About 200… Read more Video, Audio

The jury in the High Court murder trial of Venod Skantha has retired to decide if the former Dunedin Hospital doctor is guilty.

The 32-year-old denies killing 16-year-old Amber-Rose Rush in her… Read more Audio

The Samoa Red Cross says people in the Pacific nation are panicking, with 32 people confirmed dead from measles.

There are almost 2,500 people infected, with 176 of them in hospital.

There has been… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland Council's sending enforcement officers out to the Waitakere and Hunua Ranges this summer to catch any law flouters who use closed tracks and risk spreading the deadly Kauri dieback disease.

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National has revealed it would expect judges to hand out tougher sentences if it's in power, even though the judiciary is independent and should not be swayed by the government.

Among the party's law… Read more Video, Audio

A protest aboard an oil drilling ship at the Port of Timaru has come to an end, with police forced to build a scaffolding tower to arrest the remaining protestors.

The Greenpeace protest began early… Read more Video, Audio

A Pasifika woman now living in Flaxmere in Hawke's Bay is thankful she's escaped a mouldy and damp nightmare rental property that was meant to be her first slice of kiwi paradise.

Tala-lelei Hefa… Read more Video, Audio

The Health Minister has called out the Hepatitis Foundation over extravagant expenses and gross mismanagement, saying it's unacceptable.

The regulator, Charities Services, completed its investigation… Read more Audio