New Zealand

Red Covid restrictions, which meant people had to be seated and separated at a bar or restaurant, are being eased as NZ moves to orange level restrictions.

The whole of New Zealand will move to… Audio

Is the cost of food giving you a bellyache? Figures released today show prices are up 7.6 percent on the same time last year.

It's the biggest jump in more than a decade. Mortgages will be costing… Video, Audio

The Warriors are defending their response to a homophobic slur made by outside back Marcelo Montoya last Friday's rugby league match in Queensland.

Montoya will front the NRL judiciary tonight… Audio

MetService has issued a Red Warning for Tairāwhiti and Wairoa.

That means residents are being told to act now - to protect themselves, their properties and their animals.

It's just three weeks after… Video, Audio

Covid-19 may have ground the country to a halt in 2020 - but new figures show total emissions dropped only three percent compared to the year before.

It is the only year in two decades where New… Audio

The ongoing battle against Covid means ANZAC Day commemorations will be a little different again this year.

The dawn service at Auckland War Memorial Museum - which is usually one of the biggest - is… Video, Audio

Culinary crime or coup? Millions of hot cross buns are sold in the countdown to Easter and while the classic bun is still the outright winner there are some new kids on the block.

Brace for it - one… Video, Audio

Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the death of a teenager after having the Covid vaccine is "very sad" and "quite sudden".

He says the Covid Independent Safety Monitoring Board… Audio

The credit policy of Australian airline Qantas is going down like a lead balloon with a consumer advocacy group that says it's unfair and unworkable.

It could also see New Zealanders stuck with… Video, Audio

Friends of a rising MMA fighter and father killed in a one punch attack want much tougher minimum sentences, akin to ones Australia has.

Today Daniel Havili was sentenced to two years and nine months… Audio

Extreme weather is forecast to hit Tairāwhiti and Wairoa from tonight, just three weeks after the last severe downpour tore bridges apart and destroyed roads.

Residents are bracing for a trifecta of… Audio

Have cheaper public transport prices got you out of your car - and onto the bus or the train?

The subsidies are part of a three month package to ease the pressure on peoples' wallets - but should… Audio

Landlord Paul Reid has been trashing some of his own tenants for their vaccine pass policies.

Whammy Bar on Karangahape Road still uses the passes for safety, even though they're no longer legally… Audio

Parliament is being warned to tread carefully with its approach to the Russian ambassador.

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee is investigating if it can summons the Ambassador, Georgii Zuev, before… Audio

Women in Rugby Aotearoa chair Traci Houpapa has told Checkpoint she is surprised Black Ferns coach Glenn Moore is keeping his role, after a report into culture in the team.

"It does send a message to… Video, Audio

It's the five finger discount that is costing us all in the long run. A 2017 study estimated shop lifting and retail theft costs more than a billion dollars a year, with businesses spending more than… Audio

Southland firefighters are concerned a fire that's been devastating conservation land could flare up and spread with more windy, dry conditions on the way.

The fire at Awarua has burned through more… Audio