Checkpoint

Just 24 overseas nurses have applied to work in Aotearoa under a new visa scheme that was supposed to make recruitment faster and easier.

The aged care sector alone estimates it is about 1000… Read more Video, Audio

Christchurch's long wait for another All Blacks test is almost over.

Saturday's match against Argentina will be the All Blacks first in the city for six years.

The team will, however, make their… Read more Video, Audio

Taranaki tyre shops are doing a roaring trade replacing bent and buckled wheel rims and tyres blown out on the region's pothole-riddled roads. 

But it is business they would rather not have. Some… Read more Video, Audio

Roads around the Nelson-Marlborough region are an active construction site of flashing lights as crews work to get the crucial links re-opened after major flooding.

Council officials have been out… Read more Video, Audio

The family of a Kiwi soldier killed in Ukraine have paid tribute to a man they say lived a life of a hero.

Corporal Dominic Abelen has been named as the New Zealand soldier killed on the frontline… Read more Audio

The local Korean community is shocked there is a likely link between the homicide of two children and a migrant from their home country.

The Associated Press is reporting a relative of two children… Read more Audio

Children and teenagers battling Long Covid are having to take months off school with debilitating symptoms.

More than 1.7 million New Zealanders have contracted the virus since the pandemic began… Read more Video, Audio

A third of children who were placed in state care have ended up serving a prison sentence.

For Māori, it's nearly half. The data comes from research tabled before the Royal Commission into Abuse in… Read more Audio

Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark has announced a new rule in the grocery sector that will see the supermarket duopoly forced to sell groceries to their competitors at set prices and terms if they… Read more Video, Audio

Major disruptions across the top of Te Waipounamu, as the state highways connecting Blenheim and Nelson remain firmly shut.

The commute is now taking eight hours - with a diversion through… Read more Video, Audio