Checkpoint for Tuesday 22 December 2020

5:58 PM.How will you remember 2020? Will it be for Covid, the lockdown, the hardships - or the good that's come despite of it? Our reporter Louise Ternouth hit the streets of Auckland's CBD to find out what… Read more Audio

5:49 PM.A year we'll never forget. What began as a pneumonia like virus in the Chinese city Wuhan ripped through the world - infecting more than 77 million people to date, killing 1.7 million people and… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.The Wellington Phoenix won't now kick off their A-League football season until the New Year. Their match against the Roar in Brisbane, scheduled for December 29th has been postponed amid the latest… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.More than 40 countries have barred arrivals from the UK over concerns of a new variant of the coronavirus there. Some are stopover destinations for flights to and from New Zealand - causing stress and… Read more Audio

5:40 PM.Covid could still cancel Christmas in Sydney - despite New South Wales recording its lowest one-day rise in cases in three days. A quarter of a million people are part way through a five day lockdown… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:32 PM.It appears Aucklanders have been liberally watering the garden, washing the car and filling up the paddling pool.. despite the region's ongoing water woes. Water use across the city has risen by 30… Read more Audio

5:23 PM.Just-released figures show the construction industry was the biggest recipient of the Government's Covid-19 wage subsidies. That's despite building companies being allowed back at work earlier then… Read more Audio

5:20 PM.Another 80 victims have been identified during the investigation into sex abuse at Auckland's Dilworth School - with police expecting even more to come forward. Another 33 charges were laid today in… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.While his identity has finally been revealed, the family of murdered backpacker Grace Millane don't want her name associated with that of her killer. Detective Inspector Scott Beard ran the… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.It can now be revealed the man who murdered British backpacker Grace Millane also had other victims. As well as the murder of Grace Millane, 28-year-old Jesse Shane Kempson has been convicted of a… Read more Audio