New Zealand

A testing blitz has been on in several Waikato towns today after three cases emerged from a household on the Hauraki Plains.

The three are household members of a prisoner on bail, who returned to… Audio

The government has announced Auckland will drop to Covid-19 alert level three from midnight Wednesday morning.

It will remain in those tight restrictions for at least two weeks.

The decision will be… Audio

With thousands of kids locked down you may be sporting a bit more fridge art than usual.

What if those childhood imaginings could kind-of-be brought to life? That's what UK dad Tom Curtis has been… Video, Audio

Some churches are insisting no law will stop them from "praying the gay" away.

The Justice Select Committee today heard submissions on the Conversion Practices Prohibition Legislation Bill.

The… Audio

The wait is over for New Zealanders abroad from next week, stranded travellers will once again be able to try their chances at coming home.

The government stopped opening up rooms in MIQ following… Audio

Bad weather along the rugged Waikato West Coast has hampered a sea search for a missing King Country man and his three young children missing since the weekend.

Joining us now from outside the police… Video, Audio

A fundraising initiative has been set up to address the digital divide affecting hundreds of pacific students in Auckland disrupted by the Covid-19 lockdown.

Educational inequities have arisen from a… Audio

Businesses worried about ongoing lockdowns are being encouraged to get their staff vaccinated to prevent further lockdowns.

Covid-19 immunisations are progressing at a record rate, but with Delta… Audio

With nearly 1,000 cases, four weeks of lockdown and a huge hit to the New Zealand economy - Covid-19 Delta has well and truly thrown the country a giant curveball.

Last month, the government… Video, Audio

As Auckland rolls into lockdown week five, feeding the family is getting harder for some. A major food bank in Auckland says it's packed nearly six thousand boxes of kai, with volunteers shocked by… Video, Audio

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Every week day teachers across Auckland are running hundreds of virtual lessons for the region's 250,000 school children. Today our education correspondent, John Gerritsen, logged in to see what's… Audio

On Monday morning, those overseas trying to get home will be able to try to nab a place in MIQ through the new system which the government says will make the system fairer.

Instead of endless… Video, Audio

Bad weather is hampering the search for a King Country man and his three children missing on the North Island's rugged west coast.

34-year-old Thomas Phillips and his children Ember, Maverick and… Audio

An unknown number of New Zealand superannuitants risk having their pension payments suspended after getting stuck in Australia when the trans-Tasman bubble burst and the freeze went on managed… Video, Audio

In recent months Checkpoint has asked various government ministers if a mobile 'Mr Whippy'-style ice cream van could be the answer to getting more people vaccinated.

On Tuesday it became a reality… Video, Audio

Auckland Primary Principals Association President Stephen Lethbridge says 93 percent of primary and intermediate schools he has spoken to want the upcoming school holidays to remain the same.

"We've… Video, Audio

Covid-19 numbers have taken a bit of a slide today with 15 new cases in the community - all in Auckland.

There are now 970 cases linked to the delta outbreak but almost 400 of those people have… Audio

More than a million people came together today to share a moment in Te Reo Māori.

It's Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, Māori Langauge Week, and the moment is one of the week's pinnacle events.

Jamie Tahana… Audio