Checkpoint

Beware wandering sea lion pups, who are emerging from their hidey holes around Dunedin this breeding season. Many of the pups are now four to six weeks old and their mums are shuffling them off to… Read more Video, Audio

Covid's closed a canterbury school today with almost 40 staff down with the virus. Rangiora High school told parents yesterday that it didnt have enough staff to cover classes, just two days into the… Read more Video, Audio

Fire crews in Canterbury will be working throughout the night to monitor and extinguish a huge blaze that's burnt through 80-hectares of forest and scrub in Kirwee. The fire, which broke out near the… Read more Video, Audio

There were attempts to drown out ACT leader David Seymour with waiata as he spoke on the marae. The crowd quieted down after a member Ngāpuhi intervened. The same thing happened with his MP and… Read more Video, Audio

The Black Caps are in firm control of the first cricket test against South Africa. New Zealand has racked up a mammoth 551 first innings total in Mount Maunganui, with Rachin Ravindra scoring his… Read more Video, Audio

A leak in the Wellington suburb of Miramar has been spurting good drinking water into a drain at the rate of a litre per second for almost a month. Wellingtonians are getting increasingly frustrated… Read more Video, Audio

The Coalition came face-to-face with its opponents in Maoridom today, in a spectacular clash of world views , with neither side budging. The Government was welcomed to the Treaty Grounds with a… Read more Video, Audio

A cleaning company is looking to hoover up out of work staff from struggling vaccum business Godfreys. Godfreys went into voluntary administration this weeks, it has 141 stores and employs 600 people… Read more Video, Audio

A charity using recycled chip packets to make thermal blankets wants to ramp up production with predictions even more kiwi families will be in the cold come winter. The chip project uses cleaned and… Read more Video, Audio

A charity using recycled chip packets to make thermal blankets wants to ramp up production with predictions even more kiwi families will be in the cold come winter. The chip project uses cleaned and… Read more Video, Audio

Hundreds of fur seals have starved to death along the Kaikōura coast - and scientists suspect warmer sea temperatures and depleted fish stocks could be to blame. They're now doing further research to… Read more Video, Audio