Checkpoint

The next All Blacks coach has been reportedly asked not to attend All Blacks games while he's at the World Cup in France. Scott Robertson will take over from Ian Foster in the new year, and is in… Read more Video, Audio

Meanwhile the acting Race Relations Commissioner is calling for respect and dignity to be maintained at a time when political tensions are high saying she's concerned there's been racist and classist… Read more Video, Audio

The latest poll has prompted a former Prime Minister out of retirement, with Sir John Key urging voters to swing behind National, to prevent it having to work with New Zealand First. It comes as the… Read more Audio

An Auckland dairy owner is in a critical condition in hospital after what police are describing as a "violent and vicious attack". The man was stabbed at a dairy on New Windsor Road, and his wife was… Read more Video, Audio

The ACT party is the biggest loser in the latest TVNZ Verian poll with just 10 days to go until the election. Whilst National remains steady on 36 percent, no change from last week, David Seymour's… Read more Video, Audio

The Silver Scroll Awards Ceremony, celebrating the country's best songwriters, is about to get started in Auckland's Parnell in just over an hour's time. Singer-songwriter Marlon Williams is chasing a… Read more Video, Audio

A Dunedin vegetarian eatery that lets people pay what they can afford for a feed has tripled the number of meals its making each night. The Bowling club started as a food truck but moved into premises… Read more Video, Audio

Engineers have been assessing a massive landslip that's cut off more than 1500 residents from Gisborne, unless they want to take a significant detour. The slip has swept away a section of Tiniroto… Read more Video, Audio

Animal control is grappling with a surge in dog attacks in Auckland. There have been almost 2500 attacks in the year to June, 250 more than the same time last year. Over 2500 canines had to be put… Read more Audio

New Zealand Rugby League is signaling a new era for the men's and women's national sides ahead of the inaugural Pacific Championships. After losing the World Cup final to Australia last year the Kiwi… Read more Video, Audio