Checkpoint

New Zealand Rugby is apologising for an error which may take some shine off the Black Ferns quarterfinal at the Rugby World Cup this weekend.

Rugby fans will be forced to choose on Saturday night -… Read more Video, Audio

More than twenty rapes or near rapes and thousands of cases of sexual harassment have been revealed in a survey of students at two Christchurch high schools.

The survey at Avonside Girls High School… Read more Audio

Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta made a direct plea to her Iranian counterpart to urgently let a New Zealand couple leave the country.

Social media personalities, Topher Richwhite and Bridget… Read more Video, Audio

The government's confirmed it made a plea to Iran to get a New Zealand couple out of the country, but insist no deal was done to secure their release.

Against official advice, social media… Read more Audio

A taskforce that's devised a plan to clear a backlog of patients waiting months longer than they should for treatment still cant say how long it will take to work through the queue.

The group was set… Read more Video, Audio

A regional airline has agreed to trial flights between Nelson and Blenheim while SH6 is closed for repairs following flooding in August.

New mayor Nick Smith has brokered the deal with Originair to… Read more Video, Audio

The government has raised concerns about the risk of violent extremists serving in the defence force and receiving firearms training.

Sixteen investigations were carried out into current and would-be… Read more Audio

A task force set up to try to get thousands of people off surgical waiting lists has delivered a long list of recommendations but no target for when to get them done.

The Planned Care Taskforce is… Read more Audio

The children's exercise report card is in and New Zealanders are failing in some subjects.

Aotearoa scores a C+ for overall physical activity for rangitahi aged 5-17, in the study that ranks 57… Read more Video, Audio

Unretired? Or never retired in the first place? Either way, tennis great Serena Williams has certainly got people talking after confirming she is, in fact, planning on continuing to play.

Here with… Read more Video, Audio

The first cruise ship to arrive in the capital since the pandemic has docked with covid on board.

The Ovation of the Seas came from Tahiti, docked in Napier on Monday, Wellington this morning, and… Read more Video, Audio