Checkpoint

As if the rental market wasn't already tight enough - there are now hundreds of renters left in flood damaged homes, desperately searching for a new rental.

So far 277 homes have been red stickered… Read more Audio

Aucklanders be prepared to get by on your own for three days - that's the advice from Emergency Management.

Cyclone Gabrielle is off the coast of Australia and could be heading towards New Zealand… Read more Audio

The clock is ticking for rescuers in Turkey and Syria after this week's two massive earthquakes. Close to 8000 people have been killed and tens of thousands more have been injured. Millions are now… Read more Audio

The social insurance scheme would have paid people up to 80 percent of their salary for seven months after losing their jobs. It was going to be funded by an employee and business levies. But the… Read more Audio

In a sweeping policy reset, the government has axed the RNZ/TVNZ merger and pushed back work on hate speech and its social insurance scheme. The shake-up comes after the new Prime Minister Chris… Read more Audio

Diplomatic efforts are underway to try to secure the release of a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by Papuan rebels. Captain Philip Mehrtens was flying for Indonesia's Susi Air when he was captured by… Read more Audio

A family whose home was flooded has now been hit again - this time by burglars. They're one of at least nine places in Epsom that have been broken into. Now they face having to deal with police, while… Read more Audio

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