Checkpoint

The days of sharing your Netflix password could be about to end.

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More than two million New… Read more Video, Audio

New Zealand has released its Russian blacklist as the government debuts sanctions on Vladimir Putin's regime.

MPs passed legislation last week paving the way for such punitive action - but there are… Read more Audio

It's time to get back to "normal", National leader Chris Luxon says. He is calling for immediately ditching most requirements for vaccine passes.

He also wants to see isolation periods dropped from… Read more Video, Audio

The Prime Minister has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to our shores.

Tourism operators are racing to ramp up in time - with less than four weeks to go before those crossing the Tasman… Read more Audio

Omicron has put the brakes on booster vaccine rates and the communities lagging behind could be set to stay there for some time.

Just 11 percent of Aucklanders in hospital with Covid, have been… Read more Audio

A special ceremony was held in central Wellington in the wee hours of this morning, to mark the return of a very special waka.

Unearthed in the banks of Te Awakairangi or the Hutt River, the waka is… Read more Video, Audio

Dairy giant Fonterra has reported a lower half-year profit as higher milk prices raised costs and cut its margins.

While a dip in profit might usually make shareholders nervous, the record milk… Read more Audio

Two Dunedin students have been taken to hospital after falling from a roof and a balcony during St Patrick's Day celebrations in the city's student quarter.

Some students have been drinking since the… Read more Video, Audio

It's a nightmare scenario for a couple just before their wedding day: the photographer, the makeup artist or the celebrant tests positive for Covid and there's a mad scramble to find a replacement.

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Dunedin police sergeant Aaron Burgess has told Checkpoint there has been another incident of a student falling during St Patrick's Day partying.

"We've just had another incident where an intoxicated… Read more Video, Audio

There's 930 people in hospital with Covid today; 23 of them in ICU or a high dependency unit.

And the death curve is steepening, 10 reported today, bringing the total number of Covid related deaths… Read more Video, Audio