Checkpoint for Friday 21 August 2020

5:06 PM.The health board at the centre of a leadership meltdown remained quiet today, as doctors called for urgent government intervention.

It comes after the Crown monitor, Dr Lester Levy said today that… Read more Audio

5:11 PM.There will be no early release from lockdown for a third of the country living under Covid-19 alert level 3 restrictions.

The message from the Prime Minister today was stay the course. That means the… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.Auckland's Level 3 lockdown has put the skids on the North-South inter-island rugby match for at least another week.

The game was supposed to be played at Auckland's Eden Park on Saturday week but… Read more Video, Audio

5:22 PM.More than $2 billion of wage subsidies have been paid to businesses which have never paid company tax.

So far more than $13 billion has been paid out through the governments wage subsidy schemes… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.Frustrated farmers in the country's vegetable heartland have been assured they will now be able to operate, following high-level government intervention.

Covid-19 checkpoints along the… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:41 PM.It's nine days since Auckland went into Covid-19 alert level 3, and the Auckland City Mission says it is handing out just as many food parcels as it was during the peak of the first lockdown back in… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM."I give you my word if you entrust me with the Presidency, I will draw on the best of us not the worst... we'll chose hope over fear, fact over fiction."

Those are words of Democratic Presidential… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.The country's top netballers and their fans have waited several months for a grand final and they will get their wish on Sunday but Covid-19 has meant things will be a little different.

The Tactix… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.The Transport Agency has been forced to fork out another $208 million to get Wellington's billion dollar highway, Transmission Gully, back on track.

The road has now blown the budget by more than… Read more Audio

6:11 PM.Test results have confirmed a Covid-19-positive retail worker at St Lukes mall is linked to the main Auckland cluster, ruling out fears of another strain in circulation in the community.

Health… Read more Audio

6:16 PM.A Taranaki couple are vowing to fight to the bitter end to stay in their home which is in the path of the province's biggest roading project in generations.

Tony Pascoe has lived his entire life in… Read more Video, Audio

6:21 PM.Almost one out of every ten New Zealanders is living with the risk of a tsunami.

New research conducted by the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research - or NIWA - has revealed both the… Read more Audio

6:24 PM.More than 300,000 people watched on from the stands when Scott Dixon was victorious in one of world motorsport's three premier races in 2008.

But if the Kiwi driver is to win a second Indianapolis… Read more Audio