Checkpoint for Friday 30 August 2019

5:09 PM.The numbers are stark: 762 measles cases in Auckland, and 914 cases around New Zealand.

The New Zealand secondary schools rugby league championships have been cancelled, in case its players get or… Read more Video, Audio

5:14 PM.Organisers of a massive school sports tournament are apparently powerless to ban hundreds of unimmmunised students attending despite the measles outbreak.

In little over a week about 11,500… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.Some Canterbury homeowners are worried that missed earthquake damage to concrete slabs could result in another big bill for the taxpayer.

This comes only weeks after EQC told Checkpoint that the cost… Read more Video, Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:36 PM.A Coromandel company hopes to turn the 'gorse of the sea' into the country's next big export industry.

Wakame Fresh is receiving $75,000 from the government to investigate turning a type of pest… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM.Two years after the closure of the Manawatu Gorge Road, residents in towns on both sides of the ranges say their quality of life and the local economy are suffering. It will be at least another six… Read more Video, Audio

5:51 PM.Fiji police have been questioning a New Zealand resident in connection to the mysterious deaths of five family members in the Pacific island nation.

A couple, their daughter and two granddaughters… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.Tiny house owners are thinking big when it comes to protecting their tenancies and complying with building regulations.

They say they're being tripped up by a tricky clause in the Tenancy Act, which… Read more Video, Audio

6:09 PM.Minstry of Health modelling suggests the measles outbreak has not reached its peak and could continue to worsen for some weeks.

There are now 914 confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease… Read more Video, Audio

6:20 PM.Dozens of protestors in Indonesia's Papua continue to occupy the governor's office, after violent protests rocked Jayapura.

Several government buildings in the provincial capital were torched on… Read more Video, Audio

6:23 PM.The New Zealand Tall Blacks embark on mission near-impossible this weekend with the Basketball World Cup in China. Five years on from the last World Cup, the tournament has a whole new format with 32… Read more Video, Audio