Checkpoint for Wednesday 23 June 2021

5:05 PM.The Wellington region goes into Covid-19 alert level 2 restrictions from 6pm on Wednesday.

Among those rules are: social distancing, no gatherings over 100, strict rules for hospitality venues and… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.Thousands of people in Wellington have been told to isolate and get tested, some for as long as two weeks, depending on where they were.

The central city community testing centre was inundated with… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.Wellington's Museum of New Zealand Te Papa has had to close for two days for a deep clean after a Covid-19 positive tourist from Australia visited the museum and its Surrealist Art Masterpieces … Read more Video, Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6260592809001 Video, Audio

5:39 PM.ASB Showgrounds' liquidation is fast becoming very public finger-pointing exercise between two major Auckland trusts.

Checkpoint's Nick Truebridge and Nick Monro have the story. Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.Ashburton's flood-weary farmers are crying out for more financial support to fix what they say is Environment Canterbury's mismanagement of the region's rivers.

Three weeks on since the Canterbury… Read more Video, Audio

5:49 PM.It's just 30 days to the Olympics but not as we know them. International fans are banned and domestic spectators severely capped, well-spaced, and governed by some pretty tight rules.

Athletes will… Read more Video, Audio

5:54 PM.A proposal to rein in horses roaming a small eastern Bay of Plenty town has some residents gee'd up.

Hoiho have been wandering freely in Ōpōtiki for years, but the council recently proposed stamping… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.The Wellington region is officially in Alert Level 2 after an Australian tourist tested positive after spending the weekend in the capital.

The restrictions will remain in place until at least… Read more Audio

6:12 PM.Professor Shaun Hendy is a Covid-19 modelling expert and the director of Te Punaha Matatini.

He talks to Lisa Owen about the Wellington case.

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6:18 PM.Thirteen new local Covid-19 cases have been found in Sydney since last night, eight of whom attended the same birthday party.

Restrictions are ramping up again, and the New South Wales health… Read more Audio

6:20 PM.Vengeful liars who want to destroy him - that's Arthur Allan Thomas' lawyer's line to jurors set to decide his fate, over rape allegations.

But the Crown says the recollections of five people are… Read more Audio