Checkpoint for Friday 1 November 2019

5:09 PM.One of New Zealand's most notorious child-murderers gestured and swore at the media as he was handed a second indefinite prison sentence on Friday.

Stephen Roger Williams is already serving a… Read more Video, Audio

5:11 PM.Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway has directed his officials to come up with a solution so Indian immigrants aren't unfairly excluded from obtaining partnership visas.

The intervention has come… Read more Video, Audio

5:14 PM.Coca Cola is an instantly recognisible brand, backed up by a well oiled marketing machine.

But its campaign including te reo Māori on bottles and cans - urging us to share a coke with a kuia and… Read more Video, Audio

5:18 PM.Less than a third of sexual violence cases reported to the police make it to court - according to a new report released by the Ministry of Justice.

The figures - based on tens of thousands of cases… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.Now to Hagley Oval in Christchurch, where the Black Caps have just walked off the field after losing to England.

It's the first of five T20 matches against England, and the first game since the… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.Clipped wings and a docked tail hasn't stopped a retired Air Chathams aircraft making one last epic journey across the North Island - but this time on the back of a transporter.

In extraordinary… Read more Video, Audio

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

5:45 PM.Trapped, abused and afraid - the stories of disabled people in state care have had an airing at the Royal Commission.

The Commission into abuse in state based care and faith-based institutions has… Read more Audio

5:49 PM.A Conservation Department (DOC) ranger has just taken up a very specialised five-year-role in Canterbury's Banks Peninsula.

Oscar Ashton's new, full-time job is hunting wily possums that have learnt… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.It's Friday, and for many New Zealanders that means pie-day - a chance for the lunchtime treat of mince 'n cheese or steak and mushroom to round off the week.

But what about a traditional meat pie… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.A Lime e-scooter rider remains in a critical condition in hospital, after an accident in the Auckland suburb of Parnell late last night.

The crash happened after Auckland Council announced it would… Read more Audio

6:12 PM.The heavy caseloads of some school counsellors are appalling and dangerous according to their professional body.

The NZ Association of Counsellors represents about 2,500 counsellors including those… Read more Audio

6:17 PM.New Zealand rugby fans in Japan are gearing up to support the All Blacks in tonight's bronze medal match at the Rugby World Cup.

But while most Kiwis in Tokyo aren't giving up their tickets for their… Read more Audio

6:25 PM.A group of teen mums have partnered with the New Zealand Opera to pen personal lullabies for their babies.

It's part of the international lullaby project - launched by New York's Carnegie Hall in… Read more Video, Audio