Checkpoint

Washed-out bridges, twisted steel and missing bits of rail track have halted trains around Napier.

A huge clean up operation is now under way to repair the lines after Cyclone Gabrielle tore its… Read more Video, Audio

Te Whatu Ora has apologised for sharing inaccurate data that has prompted a please explain from the Health Minister, who had used the figures to talk up a turnaround in Emergency Department visits.

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Prime Minister Chris Hipkins visited fragile roads on the Coromandel Peninsula today.

It comes as State Highway 25A connecting Kopu with Hikuai remains closed and State Highway 25 between Opoutere… Read more Video, Audio

News of the sudden liquidation of the Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary - and possible euthanasia of 15 big cats - is causing upset.

The park houses lions, tigers and a leopard. Sam Olley reports from Te Tai… Read more Video, Audio

A pregnant Coromandel woman faces a three hour drive on backroads to get to a birthing unit, instead of a 45-minute trip, because of the road closure.

Leilani Brown lives in Whenuakite. She's… Read more Video, Audio

A crucial Coromandel highway with a big hole in it, will reopen tonight at 7pm and will stay open overnight.

A chunk of State Highway 25 between Hikuai and Whangamatā has fallen away.

The hole has… Read more Video, Audio

For decades a former patient of the notorious Lake Alice child and adolescent unit couldn't return to the site where she was abused.

But now she'd like to see the psychiatric hospital's former water… Read more Video, Audio

Three weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle and flood victims are still waiting to hear more details of the government recovery plan.

Major state highways are out for the foreseeable for Wairoa, Hawke's… Read more Video, Audio

Officials are waiting to find out how contaminated an industrial area in Napier has become after floodwaters swept through three weeks ago.

The area in Awatoto is home to about 20 businesses… Read more Audio

The Public Service Commissioner is writing to all Crown entity board chairs to remind them of their obligation to read the code of conduct and be politically impartial.

Pharmac chair Steve Maharey's… Read more Audio

New Zealand Cricket are 'pitching in' to help communities devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle by putting some Black Caps memorabilia up for auction.

Money raised from the auction will go to the New… Read more Video, Audio