Checkpoint for Tuesday 11 February 2020

5:06 PM.RNZ's chief executive has admitted the public broadcaster did not ask for an additional FM frequency for its proposed youth channel before going public with plans to take Concert off FM in favour of… Read more Video, Audio

5:22 PM.The Minister for Police has slammed white collar crime as the driving force behind New Zealand's drug trade.

Stuart Nash says that while gangs seem like the main offenders, it's the well-dressed… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is distancing himself from the foundation at the centre of a potential Serious Fraud Office investigation.

Following an Electoral Commission investigation into… Read more Video, Audio

5:31 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:36 PM.Investigators fighting online child exploitation say their job is getting tougher by the day.

In January a 40-year-old teacher was stopped at Auckland airport and found carrying child sexual abuse… Read more Video, Audio

5:42 PM.Search crews continue to scour Mt Aspiring National Park for a missing British tramper while her family and friends wait for news.

Stephanie Simpson left to go tramping over the weekend around Mt… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.The jury in the trial of a woman who fatally stabbed her abusive partner has heard a 111 call made the night he died. Karen Ruddelle is on trial in the High Court in Auckland accused of murdering… Read more Video, Audio

5:50 PM.Sir Robert Jones says he's never read a petition which called for his knighthood to be revoked, and he claims defamed him.

The petition was started by filmmaker Renae Maihi following comments he made… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.Leaders across the political spectrum have paid tribute to former Prime Minister Mike Moore on the first sitting day in Parliament.

They told the story of his humble beginnings, to becoming a major… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.The police are appealing for information after a boy was beaten and critically injured at a Ramsey Crescent address in Flaxmere at the end of January.

The four-year-old boy is in a serious condition… Read more Video, Audio

6:14 PM.RNZ's chief executive has confirmed Concert will stay on an FM frequency but says a proposed new youth radio network is also likely to go ahead.

RNZ's board met after the Prime Minister revealed she… Read more Video, Audio

6:18 PM.Rubbish from an old landfill in Gore has been exposed by the floodwaters.

The banks of the Waikaka Stream, which runs past a popular park and playground in Gore, have been washed away, following… Read more Video, Audio