Checkpoint for Tuesday 19 April 2022

6:16 PM.A crop-killing moth could cost New Zealand farmers tens of millions of dollars, if populations survive. 

Eggs were found in suburban Tauranga in surveillance traps last month - and larvae have now… Read more Audio

6:06 PM.A quarter of Auckland's character homes are marked to lose their heritage status when higher density rules come into force later this year. 

Auckland Council has released draft maps of the areas… Read more Video, Audio

5:56 PM.The countdown is once again on for many of New Zealand's top athletes.

Today marks 100 days until the 2022 Commonwealth Games get underway in the British city of Birmingham.

So, before the serious… Read more Video, Audio

5:49 PM.A lifelong friend of a man shot and killed by police in Taranaki two years ago says he was shocked to hear of another fatal shooting.

22-year-old Kaoss Price was shot on Saturday night after he… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.Russia has launched an all-out assault on Eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine says Russian troops have started their fight for the Donbas region trying to break into the frontlines of Luhansk, Donetsk and… Read more Audio

5:38 PM.It's time to recloak the whenua in native trees or lose more of it to extreme weather events - that's the call from well-known east coaster Manu Caddie.

A series of storms in Tairāwhiti has left… Read more Video, Audio

5:28 PM.RNZ deputy editor Craig McCulloch joins Lisa Owen with the latest news from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's trip overseas, first landing in Singapore.

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5:25 PM.Australia Zoo has made a last-minute decision to pull the pin on plans to take Burma the elephant from Auckland Zoo.

The 38-year-old was due to live out her twilight years at the zoo across the ditch… Read more Video, Audio

5:22 PM.The Prime Minister has been officially welcomed to Singapore as she kicks off her first overseas trip since the pandemic. Jacinda Ardern arrived in the country last night New Zealand time - after… Read more Audio

5:17 PM.There are calls for a national inquiry after another worker is killed on the job at Auckland's port.

The worker from private stevedoring firm Wallace Investments died after falling from a height… Read more Video, Audio

5:08 PM.The country's two top doctors signed off on a suggestion to end MIQ in November last year.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Dr Caroline McElnay agreed MIQ was no longer justified on public health grounds… Read more Audio