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A warning, this story contains distressing content. A work colleague of Graham Dickason has described finding a distraught father moments after he found his three daughters dead. Lauren Dickason has… Read more Video, Audio

Police minister Ginny Anderson spoke to Lisa Owen live in the Checkpoint studio. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6331516496112 Read more Video, Audio

Despite the events of today, the Women's Football World Cup gets underway in just over an hour. Some of the teams here for the tournament were inside the cordon police set up around the downtown… Read more Video, Audio

Auckland's Deputy Mayor has described today as one of deep contrast, with an unthinkable tragedy on what should be a time of celebration with the city hosting the opening match of the FIFA world cup… Read more Video, Audio

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"Shocking and traumatic." That's the police commissioner's description of the Auckland CBD… Read more Video, Audio

Fans have come out in force to welcome the Netherlands football team to the Bay of Plenty just days before the FIFA Woman's World Cup kicks off. The squad chose Tauranga as its base of operations… Read more Video, Audio

The government's creating a new ram raid offence that could see children as young as twelve charged, and facing a maximum ten year jail sentence. Right now burglary charges can cover ram raid… Read more Video, Audio

A survivor of abuse at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital says he feels fobbed off by the New Zealand government's response to questions by the United Nations Committee Against Torture. New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio

It's the final countdown for the first match of the FIFA women's football world cup. In just over 24 hours time, the first match will kick off, the Football Ferns versus Norway. Our reporter Louise… Read more Video, Audio

Putting names to faces is exactly what Te papa and the Wellington Indian Association is hoping to do with a series of mystery portraits. About 4000 photographic negatives were discovered in a cupboard… Read more Video, Audio

A leading volcanologist says the exact time and day of an eruption cannot be predicted, but volcanic activity had picked up in the months leading to the deadly Whakaari White Island eruption. Dr Gill… Read more Audio