Checkpoint

Auckland's in a state of Emergency again, as the city is hammered by torrential rain and flash flooding.

It's put already anxious and displaced residents on edge once more.

MetService has issued a… Read more Video, Audio

MetService has issued 15 weather warnings and watches across New Zealand on Tuesday.

It's a familiar scene again in Auckland with flooding across the city.

Checkpoint reporter Louise Ternouth is in… Read more Video, Audio

In Auckland alone we send 100,000 tonnes of food waste to landfill every year. Now food scrap bins are being rolled out across the city to help use that food for fuel, at the country's first… Read more Video, Audio

After two months of using a dinghy, a husband and wife stranded by Cyclone Gabrielle can now leave home on a slightly less precarious river crossing.

The storm's heavy rain swelled the Manawatū… Read more Video, Audio

Nelson has long been known for its "Sunshine Wages" but a new report shows they have fallen to 14 percent below the national average.

At just over $60,000 dollars a year - they are the lowest average… Read more Audio

The boss of the Warriors major sponsor has called out the NRL referees after what he says is "cheating of the highest order".

One New Zealand chief executive Jason Paris vented on social media… Read more Audio

A Christchurch trust working with at-risk youth is one of more than 130 to have their funding cut by Oranga Tamariki.

The Youth Alive Trust has been around for more than three decades and runs… Read more Video, Audio

Retailers are warning insurance hikes in the wake of ram raids and other crime could force many out of business.

Retail New Zealand says the rising costs mean more than eighty percent of its members… Read more Audio

ACT wants to spend half a billion dollars building youth detention centres that would be run by the Department of Corrections, if it is in government.

The party says young law breakers need to be… Read more Video, Audio

When it comes to catching a wave, Hāwea Flat - just outside Wānaka, isn't the first place that springs to mind.

But that's about change with the launch of YourWave - essentially what happens when a… Read more Video, Audio