Checkpoint

One of Fletcher Building's toughest critics has little faith anything will change after a crisis meeting with the GIB giant today.

KiwiSaver provider and social housing backer, Simplicity Living… Read more Video, Audio

North Shore residents say the robbery in broad daylight of a local jewellery store signifies a growing trend along one of Takapuna's main streets.

Men armed with what appeared to be crow bars have… Read more Video, Audio

An emergency doctor says there is massive pressure on the health system as a whole. 

Hutt Hospital emergency physician Dr Tanya Wilton told Checkpoint there are already gaps in rosters, with staff… Read more Video, Audio

Crisis meetings and investigations are continuing, after Middlemore ED's long wait times appear to have cost a life on Wednesday.

Counties Manukau District Health Board says patient presentations are… Read more Audio

A woman abused in foster care in the late 1990s has told the Royal Commission into Abuse in care that one placement she was in was a house of horrors.

Known only as Mrs E.J, she first went into care… Read more Audio

Checkpoint has recently been reporting on the GP shortage that's forcing some of you to travel hundreds of kilometres to see a doctor or in some cases wait months to get enrolled in a local clinic.

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Unprecedented early season snowfall & the return of tourists have combined for the perfect opening day to Queenstown's ski season.

Reporter, Timothy Brown, and camera operator, Nathan McKinnon… Read more Video, Audio

For more than two weeks an inquest into the death of a Palmerston North mental health ward patient has examined events leading to his suspected suicide.

Today, the hearing was told about a different… Read more Audio

Teachers have racked up nearly twice as many sick days as normal, and at some schools it is breaking the bank.

Principals warn their budgets for relief teachers are overspent by thousands of dollars… Read more Audio

A building supporting the rainbow community in Tauranga has been destroyed in a possible arson.

Gender Dynamix helps the Transgender and Non-binary community and also functions as the Rainbow Youth… Read more Audio

A reported truce between the Killer Beez and Tribesmen is considered an 'incredibly tricky' achievement.

In the past month, tense turf wards in Auckland and Northland have boiled over to gun violence… Read more Audio