Checkpoint

Some shopping arcades in Auckland are looking like deserted waste lands with vacant shop after vacant shop. CBD business association Heart of the City says the numbers are improving but there are only… Read more Audio

A ground breaking mulch to prevent ground baking this El Nino Summer. Previously unusable fibrous green waste is being minced into an environomentally friendly ground cover...with Auckland council… Read more Audio

Have Victoria University students effectively been given a hall pass that gets them out of face to face lectures? After Covid restrictions were dropped the University anounced some students and… Read more Video, Audio

The New Zealand women's domestic cricket season starts tomorrow but not everyone is convinced that it's preparing the White Ferns for international cricket. And the Black Caps have been criticised for… Read more Audio

The clock is ticking on an Invercargill institution, that is the H&J Smith Department store. After 123 years in business it will close its doors for the final time at three tomorrow, a victim of… Read more Video, Audio

Just a day after two violent deaths in Hutt Valley, the community is still anxiously waiting for answers. Police have yet to name either the woman who was killed in a hit-and-run early in the morning… Read more Audio

Christopher Luxon's leadership skills have come under fire from political commentators today as negotiations to form the next government look set to continue through the weekend. Read more Audio

A scorching day in the Garden city brought masses of people to the second day of the New Zealand Agricultural show. Tens of thousands have flocked to see animals big and small, as the event marks its… Read more Video, Audio

The Israeli military has published a video, which has not been independently verified, which it says shows Hamas weapons and equipment found in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital. Israel's army mounted an… Read more Video, Audio

The worst year for business in over 20 years, that's how one business owner describes the last ten months living without the Coromandel Peninsula's vital link, State highway 25A. The route between… Read more Video, Audio

Dramatic recordings of police radio communications as the Christchuch mosque attacks unfolded show emergency services scrambling to respond. The coronial inquest into the 2019 terror attacks continued… Read more Audio