Checkpoint

Sam Cane admits he was surprised when he was told he'd be the next All Blacks captain.

The Chiefs flanker was give the job despite the lack of international rugby on the horizon.

As RNZ rugby… Audio

There is growing support for a petition to ban all freedom camping, nation-wide, for non-residents.

The woman behind the idea wants the country to re-asses the parameters around freedom camping in… Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

Nearly seven weeks after confirming its first case of Covid-19, and weeks into a nationwide lockdown, another student from Auckland's Marist college has tested positive.

It brings New Zealand's… Video, Audio

For the first time ever, Parliament is issuing summonses to the Solicitor-General, the Director-General of Health and the Police Commissioner, seeking all legal advice on the lockdown.

The Epidemic… Audio

Former parliamentary counsel and law drafter Andrew Borrowdale is putting the question to the test, asking the High Court to rule lockdown level 4 and 3 illegal. He is arguing that Director-General of… Video, Audio

Grieving communities are feeling the strain over having to ensure funerals and tangi are restricted to 10 people only.

More than 100 people turned up to a tangi near Christchurch this week, despite… Audio

A veteran New Zealand retailer is on a rent strike in what she describes as a battle to survive after losing an estimated $1 million in turnover in the last six weeks due to Covid-19.

Homeware store… Video, Audio

Māori communities in isolated areas are turning up in droves to be tested for Covid-19.

New mobile testing units are being deployed to rural areas and to whānau homes, and clinics are being set up at… Audio

The final blueprint for New Zealand's legal cannabis market has been released - giving the public all the information to decide how they will vote in the planned referendum.

The new details include a… Audio

Despite several days of queues at takeaway stores across the country, the next few weeks will reveal how many food businesses will actually be able to survive the impacts of Covid-19.

Indira Stewart… Video, Audio

If New Zealanders vote to legalise cannabis, there will be a cap on how much is grown every year, set by an authority that will also divide the quota between licenced growers. 

The government has… Video, Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

A massive bang, and when the smoke cleared - there was a body.

A man has been charged with the murder of an Auckland woman on Friday morning, in the wake of an explosion that woke a suburb.

Mt… Audio

The West Coast's mayors are calling on the government to relax the lockdown rules in their region to save jobs and businesses.

There are no active cases of Covid-19 in the West Coast DHB area and… Audio

The government is to give small businesses interest free loans to help them with the economic turmoil post-lockdown.

The Small Business Cashflow Loan Scheme will provide assistance of up to a… Audio

Waitematā DHB concedes it has had complaints about ill-fitting masks that are supposed to protect staff from Covid-19.

The DHB's launched an investigation into the use of PPE (personal protective… Video, Audio

A nurse at Waitematā DHB where three staff have contracted Covid-19 says "beggars belief" that personal protective equipment use failed.

But she says her DHB is ill-prepared and has shown… Audio

New Zealand Rugby's top decision makers opened the books on the state of the country's biggest sport today.

The national body was expecting to make a substantial loss last year - but things turned… Audio