Checkpoint for Monday 21 September 2020

5:07 PM.From midnight tonight all of New Zealand - except Auckland - will move back to Covid-19 alert level 1, more than a month after the Auckland outbreak.

There were no new cases of Covid-19 reported on… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.As Auckland commuters brace for another long evening in trickling traffic, relief is on its way from Taranaki.

A temporary replacement Harbour Bridge strut will be installed tomorrow night, after… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.Traffic is in severe gridlock in central Auckland as one onramp to the Harbour Bridge has been blocked, and cars are trying to get through the city to the Fanshawe Street onramp.

Checkpoint reporter… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.Auckland Marathon organisers are betting on the event going ahead despite the double delimma of uncertainty around Covid-19 alert levels and Harbour Bridge repairs potentially forcing changes to the… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.Many New Zealanders are breathing a sigh of relief after the Prime Minister announced today the country is moving down alert levels.

Auckland will be moving to level two from Wednesday midnight and… Read more Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:48 PM.National leader Judith Collins is continuing to bat off questions about her party's $4 billion error in its flagship economic plan.

Ms Collins was back campaigning in Auckland today, visiting… Read more Audio

5:56 PM.The board of a struggling incorporated society, set up to help disabled people, spent $670,000 of public money and donations on consultants - including paying its own chairman close to $100,000 for… Read more Video, Audio

6:09 PM.A new strut will be in place on the Auckland Harbour Bridge in the next few days after a freak accident on Friday morning caused serious structural damage.

Strong winds struck two trucks travelling… Read more Video, Audio

6:13 PM.There are mixed feelings in Auckland about the upcoming move to Alert Level 2 - with some ready for restrictions to be relaxed further.

From midnight on Wednesday gatherings of 100 will be allowed in… Read more Audio

6:17 PM.The Abuse in Care Royal Commission has been told of a young man being assaulted by a teacher at a school for the deaf in the 1980s.

The commission has resumed its public hearings in Auckland… Read more Audio

6:25 PM.Laurie, the 30-year-old monkey who escaped a life in the circus to spend his twilight years with a foster family and his best friend - a cat - has died.

Laurie was first on Checkpoint in 2019 when he… Read more Video, Audio