Checkpoint for Friday 19 February 2021

5:06 PM.In Auckland's CBD it appears the lights are on but nobody is there.

The impact of this week's third inner city lockdown in a year is being so widely felt some businesses say if they cannot get rent… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.The first Covid-19 vaccines have been given in New Zealand, with 100 vaccinators first in-line to receive a dose.

They will roll up their sleeves again on Saturday as they begin vaccinating… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.On Thursday's edition of Checkpoint, Christchurch man Brian Shaw told us about his terminal cancer and his desire to get his decade-long insurance claim with Vero settled before he dies.

On Friday… Read more Video, Audio

5:19 PM.Ten years since the deadly Christchurch quake, which devastated the city on February 22, Dr Lydia Johns Putra tells Lisa Owen about her experience of saving the life of Brian Coker.

He was trapped in… Read more Video, Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6233570735001 Video, Audio

5:39 PM.It has been revealed one of the men on trial over the Red Fox Tavern murder more than 30 years ago was jailed for a similar robbery several years earlier.

Forty-three-year-old father of two Chris… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.Locals have described it as the jewel in Dunedin's crown, and today the city council unveiled a possible future for Ocean Beach.

Covering more than three kilometres from St Clair to St Kilda, the… Read more Video, Audio

5:49 PM.There are calls to bring in new rules around e-scooters - after it was found users were more likely to be hospitalised than cyclists.

Research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal compares… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.For most of us, dreams of becoming an overnight millionaire are just that. Not for New Zealand cricket's fastest rising star Kyle Jamieson.

The Black Caps fast bowler is set to be almost $3 million… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.The country's Covid vaccine roll-out is officially underway, with a small group of vaccinators getting the Pfizer jab today.

Just 25 people - mostly nurses - received their inoculation at Auckland's… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.As the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out begins, there are fears disinformation will put Māori and Pasifika off getting the jab.

A Horizon Research and University of Auckland study has found those… Read more Audio

6:13 PM.Police are cracking down on gangs, with the launch of a nationwide operation to disrupt and prevent firearms-related gang violence.

Operation Tauwhiro is a long-term co-ordinated operation focusing… Read more Audio

6:17 PM.Ten years after his wife and 114 others died in the CTV building collapse, Maan Alkaisi remains as determined as ever to see justice served.

Alkaisi has for the last decade acted as the vocal voice… Read more Video, Audio

6:23 PM.Could this be the purrrfect ending to the tale of roaming Rodney aka the abandoned ITM cat?

It seems he has finally been found and given a forever home after going missing for about four months.

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