The Minister for Mental Health has been briefed on the death of a baby found in a wheelie bin in Auckland. A 32-year-old ...

Seven people were missing after a fire and powerful explosion levelled a commercial fireworks facility in rural northern ...

The building will be the largest single health facility in New Zealand and largest health investment in the South Island.

Te Tūkohu Ngāwhā Mātauranga Māori Science and Design Fair is run by Te Arawa Lakes Trust and, this year, it will be held from ...

The Indian business community is divided over proposed reforms to the Trespass Act that were unveiled by the government in ...

Chorus says phone and internet has been restored to most homes and businesses in Golden Bay, after a day-long outage affecting 111 emergency calls.

The amount of money Health NZ is spending on locum doctors to plug staff shortages is increasing and could reach $200 million this year. Checkpoint has obtained figures that show the spend on fill-ins ...

More than a dozen Ministry of Social Development staff have walked off the job, refusing to return to what they say is an unsafe office with ''strong mould and sewerage smell'. Staff in the ministry's ...

A forensic scientist has told the jury in the Khandallah murder trial that, in her opinion, the blood in the hallway looked staged. Julia DeLuney is accused of murdering her 79-year-old mother, Helen ...

A former IRD prosecutor is calling for changes to the student loan system so that Kiwis living overseas aren't put off coming home because they're worried about being arrested at the border. In April, ...

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about the latest updates in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial - Combs has been aqcuitted of the most serious charges in his criminal federal ...

The amount of money Health NZ is spending on locum doctors to plug staff shortages is increasing and could reach $200 million this year. Checkpoint has obtained figures that show the spend on fill-ins ...