Checkpoint for Thursday 13 May 2021

8:06 PM.The Director-General of Health has revealed students 12 years and older could get their Covid-19 jabs in a school-based vaccination prorgramme starting at the end of Term 3.

And in a pre-Budget… Read more Video, Audio

5:14 PM.New Zealand families separated by the Covid-19 pandemic are crying out to know when they might be able to reunite.

In a speech titled 'Reconnecting to the World', the Prime Minister offered no… Read more Audio

5:18 PM.UN officials are warning violence between Israelis and Palestinians could be escalating towards a full scale war.

In the past couple of days, Palestinian militants have fired more than 1,000 rockets… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.The six people charged in relation to a donation made to the Labour Party allegedly offended between March 2017 and March 2018.

The Serious Fraud Office charges allege the donors' identities were not… Read more Video, Audio

5:29 PM.One in five children are living in households where food can run out, and one in three are living in houses that are unaffordable for their whānau.

That's the bleak picture painted by the latest… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6253978169001 Video, Audio

5:40 PM.A year after ministers were warned emergency housing was posing a risk to public safety in Rotorua, the government is moving to clean up the problems.

It will directly contract motels for emergency… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.New Zealand has been accused of selfishly overbuying Covid-19 vaccines in a WHO-commissioned report.

It also called out the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and the EU for securing enough vaccine to cover… Read more Audio

5:47 PM.A top public health professor says New Zealand will need to change its Covid-19 elimination strategy as our borders open to more high-risk countries.

Today the Prime Minister outlined expectations… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.The Southland Charity Hospital is another step closer to reality with the issuing of building consent to get construction under way.

Consent was approved yesterday, just in time to mark late cancer… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.The Ministry of Health is warning the team of five million to prepare for a new norm even when most of the population is fully vaccinated and the borders start reopening to more low risk countries.

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6:21 PM.The Immigration Minister was shouted down at a rally of unhappy migrants today, as he revealed he couldn't give them the answers they were after in their bid to loosen border restrictions.

A crowd of… Read more Video, Audio

6:25 PM.Protesters sang their displeasure about water quality up to those sitting inside the offices of the Canterbury Regional Council today.

About 200 gathered at lunchtime to let the council know what… Read more Audio