New Zealand

The Silver Ferns meet the Australian Diamonds in the first of four Tests tonight, hoping to defend the Constellation Cup they won last year.

The last time the arch rivals met was in January with the… Audio

Michael Hill is leaving its Takapuna store bordered up indefinitely. The shop has been hit by ram raids and smash and grabs three times this year, making it Michael Hill Jewellers' most targeted… Video, Audio

Overseas nurses are working as 'stop-go' road workers rather than at hospitals because they can earn up to $10 more per hour.

A civil construction manager has told Checkpoint he has four nurses… Audio

A very deep financial hole has left locals and businesses around Ruapehu in limbo. Ruapehu Alpine Lifts has announced it's appointed administrators PWC, to work its way out up to $50 million of debt.

The Immigration Minister is promising employers it's going to be much easier to get desperately needed staff from overseas.

The new skilled migrant policy announced today will have no cap on numbers… Video, Audio

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts has been put into voluntary administration.

The company operates the Whakapapa and Tūroa skifields in the central North Island.

Our reporter Katie Todd has the details.

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New Zealand Post has opened a new Wellington depot - the first automated processing hub in the lower North Island with its own super sorter machine.

Visual journalist Samuel Rillstone went to see how… Video, Audio

'Unbelievable'. That's the word the Mayor of the Chatham Islands is using to describe the second mass stranding of pilot whales in less than a week.

Almost 500 have beached since Friday in two… Audio

Despite a swathe of ram raids across the city, just six Auckland businesses had their applications for bollards approved in the first eight months of this year.

Data obtained by Checkpoint under the… Video, Audio

Farmers are claiming the government's new agriculture emissions scheme could put farmers out business.

The government plan unveiled today will see famers pay for pollution by 2025 and is largely… Video, Audio

The Black Caps will make up for their 11th-hour withdrawal from Pakistan last year by touring there twice in the space of five months.

While the double tours come as a result of that hasty exit due… Video, Audio

Only 22 nurses have arrived in New Zealand from overseas since the government unveiled incentives to coax health workers here. They are among the 341 new additions to nursing in the past three months.

The Crown has been appealing the sentence handed down to 18 year old Jayden Meyer, who raped four girls and sexually violated another.

Meyer was a minor at the time of his offending. He was sentenced… Video, Audio

Farmers will start paying for emissions by 2025. The government's gone with He Waka Eke Noa's sector consultation document - with some tweaks around the pricing scheme.

There'll be two separate taxes… Video, Audio

Auckland Council chief executive Jim Stabback says there are financial challenges that need solving in the council's books, especially in an environment of high inflation. 

"All the information we… Video, Audio

Fullers has called on Uber to pick up Auckland Transport commuters on at least 350 occasions this year, when it's had to cancel ferries.

On hundreds more occasions, when the cancellation has happened… Video, Audio