Checkpoint

The All Blacks are back in Aotearoa after last week's dramatic Bledisloe Cup test in Melbourne. Ahead of Saturday's second match against the Wallabies at Eden Park, the good, bad and ugly was… Read more Video, Audio

National Party MP Sam Uffindell is back in caucus after an investigation did not substantiate allegations of aggressive behaviour against a young woman.

The woman, who was his flatmate while at Otago… Read more Video, Audio

An estimated two million people will be on the streets to see the procession pass by. Billions more are expected to tune in - making it the most watched televised event in history.

The queue is… Read more Video, Audio

A kapa haka group's remaining members are reflecting on how far te ao Māori has come - 50 years on from its time in the spotlight.

Māwai Hākona won the second ever kapa haka competition in the… Read more Video, Audio

Preparations for the Queen's funeral are in full swing in London, with thousands of people continuing to trek to Westminster Hall to see her Majesty lying in state.

Our reporter Katie Todd joins us… Read more Video, Audio

A Whanganui moggie has used up one of its nine lives after being rescued from a Phoenix palm in Goneville where it's been stuck for about two weeks.

Rio was plucked from the tree this morning after a… Read more Audio

Aussie fossil hunters have made a heart stopping discovery: a 380-million-year-old preserved pre-historic fish with its ticker still intact.

The remains of the extinct fish known as a placoderm were… Read more Video, Audio

For the first time, tunneling has begun under a major harbour in Tāmaki Makaurau. It's part of Watercare's giant waste water tunnel, which is expected to make the city's polluted beaches a thing of… Read more Video, Audio

Parents rushing their sick children to Palmerston North Hospital's under-pressure emergency department will soon be able sit away from the weekend drunks and other distractions.

Design work has begun… Read more Audio

Warning: Some of the details in this report will be upsetting to some listeners.

The father of a Christchurch-born young man shot by police in the United States, says his death amounts to murder.

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Otago is one of the least diverse regions in the country - and it's local bodies reflect that. But a growing number of candidates hope to change that at next month's local elections.

Our… Read more Audio