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.

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

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

New Zealand Para skier Adam Hall has been selected for a record-equalling sixth Paralympic Winter Games. He enters the record books alongside Graham Condon and Michael Johnson who competed at six ...

Some former students now living overseas have told Checkpoint they are too scared to come home because they could be arrested for being behind in payments, with heavy penalties adding up. Students ...

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.

States of emergency remain in place for Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough this afternoon, but the sodden regions appear to have received less rainfall than feared.

The Prime Minister has promised to take action in the coming months to tackle the cost of living crisis. Christopher Luxon has acknowledged it is still tough out there for too many kiwis and the ...

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 ...

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