Checkpoint

As cyclone hit communities rebuild this lives, pests have been making the most of the chaos, destruction and abandoned homes.

Tired of seeing rats have free run, residents are taking matters into… Read more Audio

NZ grocery suppliers have been warned that pressuring an online supermarket to increase prices would amount to breaking the law.

Auckland-based online supermarket, Supie, says multiple suppliers are… Read more Audio

With Easter just around the corner, you might find shopping for chocolate a bit pricier this year.

Infometrics economist Brad Olsen has done the numbers. He reckons this year's chocolate bunnies and… Read more Audio

If you're literally taking off on an Easter break Thursday is Air NZ's busiest of the weekend. Demand is up almost 70 percent on the same time last year.

Among those travelling, 5800 unaccompanied… Read more Video, Audio

Black Caps fans have been hit by some bad news ahead of the Cricket World Cup.

Captain Kane Williamson is unlikely to play at the tournament in India in October after picking up an injury playing in… Read more Video, Audio

A Christchurch surgeon's speaking out about long waits for cancer patients despite allegations his employer is trying to muzzle staff.

Colorectal surgeon Chris Wakeman says some of his patients have… Read more Video, Audio

Green Party MP Elizabeth Kerekere is in hot water after apparently calling her colleague Chloe Swarbrick a "cry baby" in a text sent in error.

The text was sent to a group chat of MPs and staff, and… Read more Video, Audio

'We're shouldering all the pain'. Tonight the Hawke's Bay businesses who say they've been forgotten, left homeless and jobless.

They believe they've been left to pick up the tab for Cyclone… Read more Video, Audio

Live Australian freshwater crayfish are among the contraband sniffed out by Biosecurity at Auckland Airport in the past three months.

The number of air passengers screened in the first quarter of… Read more Video, Audio

One of the men at the centre of the stand off at Gore District Council was given a two year contract extension just days before a new council was picked.

Chief executive Stephen Parry is no longer on… Read more Audio