Checkpoint

Returning now to the government's policy refocus. Several policies have been thrown on the scrap heap - or kicked into the long grass to revisit later. Instead the focus is going into the cost of… Read more Audio

Calls for a freeze on housing intensification in Auckland following the flooding is just a bid to stop development in the city's richer suburbs according to an urban development advocacy group.

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Confusion continues around the process to appoint the All Blacks coach beyond this year's Rugby World Cup. Crusaders coach Scott Robertson - one of the frontrunners for the job - indicated this… Read more Audio

An enormous haul of cocaine floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has been seized by New Zealand agencies. The 3 tonnes worth of cocaine was made up of 81 bales. It's the equivalent of a year's… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister has pulled the pin on a series of government projects that had faced criticism, and has sent others into the shadows to revisit some other time. Gone is the RNZ/TVNZ merger, the… Read more Audio

Some Auckland pest controllers are warning about an influx in rodents and pests after a fortnight of hot, wet weather.

But despite pest control companies recieving more calls, the council expects… Read more Audio

At least 276 Auckland homes have been red stickered due to flood damage, meaning they're currently not liveable.

Another 1590 homes or buildings have been yellow stickered - they're got extensive… Read more Video, Audio

It's been a year since the occupation of Parliament grounds and the local community is still counting the cost of the nearly month long protest.

Bill Hickman reports. Read more Audio

Children as young as 10 years old are being targeted for 'sextortion' by sophisticated international criminals.

The online blackmail involves scammers persuading victims to send them sexual images or… Read more Audio