Checkpoint for Thursday 12 November 2020

6:25 PM.It's been bogged down in legal battles for years, but a decision has been made, a $500 million coastal housing development in Wellington is one step closer.

The winners include the developers and… Read more Audio

6:22 PM.Covid-19 forced some students to ditch their studies to look for work and support families hit hard by lockdown and redundancies.

Today, the Ara Education Charitable Trust and students from 15 south… Read more Audio

6:16 PM.The 100,000 Aucklanders who work in the central business district are being told to work from home tomorrow if possible, as officials race to contain a mystery case of Covid-19.

The latest community… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.Workers in Auckland's CBD are being asked to stay at home on Friday if at all possible as Health authorities race to find the source of a new community case of Covid-19.

A woman in her 20s returned a… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.Four days in and the scale of the damage from Monday's storm in Napier is still unclear.

Sixty-seven homes have been deemed unfit to live in, of which 22 are severely damaged by either slips or… Read more Video, Audio

5:50 PM.An economist is predicting the rise of generation rent as house prices reach record levels.

The latest figures from the monthly house price index shows house prices have increased by almost 20… Read more Audio

5:38 PM.There was shock and confusion at the Auckland apartment block where the country's latest community case of Covid-19 lives.

With no health officials on site, it was left to media to break the news to… Read more Video, Audio

5:25 PM.A Covid-19 modeller who provides advice to the government says if the virus has been circulating for a while there could be a few dozen cases in the community.

Physics academic and Covid-19 modeller… Read more Video, Audio

5:06 PM.Health authorities are racing to find the source of a new community case of Covid-19, but right now they have no idea where the Auckland student caught the virus.

The woman in her twenties has no… Read more Video, Audio