Checkpoint for Tuesday 4 February 2020

5:07 PM.A State of Emergency has been extended to include all of Southland as water levels continue to rise and cause major damage.

Dozens of people have already been rescued from tracks in Fiordland after… Read more Video, Audio

5:14 PM.New Zealanders will start to arrive at Wuhan's international airport in a few hours time, preparing for their evacuation out of the city where the coronavirus outbreak began.

An Air New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio

5:18 PM.Air New Zealand will take full responsibility if one of its crew contracts the novel-coronavirus on the charter flight bringing New Zealanders home from Wuhan, its head pilot Captain Dave Morgan says.

5:32 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:37 PM.The coronavirus could cost Auckland University tens of millions of the dollars with thousands of its international students stuck in China after New Zealand closed its borders to them.

The university… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.A company who made donations to the New Zealand First Foundation says it thought it was donating to the New Zealand First Party.

Documents seen by RNZ show from 2017 to 2019, the mysterious… Read more Video, Audio

5:47 PM.The challenges to New Zealand's politicians came thick and fast as party leaders were welcomed onto the treaty grounds at Waitangi on Tuesday.

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For the third year… Read more Video, Audio

5:51 PM.As the political day at Waitangi came to an end, there were many other politics in te ao Maori on display. Mani Dunlop has more. Audio

5:55 PM.The Black Ferns are already eyeing up another Rugby World Cup win - this time hopeful to claim the title on their home turf.

The first women's Rugby World Cup to be held in the southern hemisphere… Read more Audio

6:06 PM.A state of emergency in Southland has been extended as torrential rain over the past two days has brought landslips, widespread flooding and closed roads across the region.

It comes as 195 tourists… Read more Video, Audio

6:11 PM.A Wellington couple on their honeymoon are celebrating a narrow escape after slips and flooding washed out parts of the Routeburn track almost wiping out the hut they were sheltering in.

Brett… Read more Video, Audio