Checkpoint for Tuesday 1 February 2022

5:07 PM.Two weeks - that's the deadline a rural contractor is setting the government to follow through with their December promise to allow 200 skilled machinery operators into the country to help with the… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.'I urge her to take it' - the message from the Deputy Prime Minister to pregnant journalist Charlotte Bellis - after announcing she's been given a place in MIQ.

Bellis is in Afghanistan, and had been… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.It's day one, case one for an Auckland high school that's already dealing with a infected staff member just as students return to the classroom.

But Otāhuhu College's principal says it's time schools… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.The government has announced a big shipment of rapid antigen tests has been secured and will be here in the next two months.

The Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says they've secured an… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.New figures show one in seven Catholic clergy who work for a bishop have had abuse complaints laid against them.

The Catholic Church has for the first time publicly released the figures, which show… Read more Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:40 PM.Two years into the pandemic and with Omicron expected to be widespread in the community soon, New Zealanders are adapting to a 'new normal'.

Our reporters Soumya Bhamidipati and Samuel Rillstone took… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.The New Zealand Open has been chopped into the rough, with the golf tournament organisers having to pull pin under the red light.

Tournament chairman John Hart talks to Lisa Owen.

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5:49 PM.New Zealand snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has revealed she has a new trick she wants to bring out at the Beijing Winter Olympics which start later this week - but the conditions may not allow her… Read more Audio

5:54 PM.A group of Christchurch residents are crying out for help dealing with a pretty crappy situation plaguing their neighbourhood.

Families living on Dudley Street say thousands of birds nesting in trees… Read more Video, Audio

6:07 PM.A stark warning from the OECD - the economy is hot, hot, hot - so hot it's starting to overheat - with soaring inflation and runaway house prices.

It wants the government to rein it in - and has… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.The squeeze on MIQ spots has put the squeeze on the agricultural industry desperate for overseas workers to take up roles as skilled machinery operators.

The government announced in December 200 MIQ… Read more Video, Audio

6:19 PM.A downward trend in the number of rangatahi in the youth justice system is being cautiously welcomed.

The number of youth offenders has more than halved in the past decade. But with disparities for… Read more Audio