Checkpoint for Friday 5 August 2022
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Taranaki Mountain Airs send off 'Aunty' in style
6:25 PM.The Taranaki Mountain Airs basketball team couldn't have scripted a better home send-off for retiring veteran Aaron Baily-Nowell aka 'Aunty'. Cellar-dwellers last season, the New Plymouth-based side… Read more Video, Audio
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NZ workforce hit hard by major rise in winter illnesses
5:54 PM.The country's work force has been stretched over the past few months as Covid-19 cases and winter illnesses dramatically increase. One hotel boss has called the endless staff shortage the worst he has… Read more Audio
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All Waitakere dams full after Auckland's second wettest July
5:49 PM.All of Auckland's western dams are full after the country's wettest July on record. Read more Video, Audio
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Andrew Little, Andrew Campbell witnesses in donations case
5:38 PM.Former Labour Party leader Andrew Little and the Prime Minister's chief press secretary have appeared as witnesses in a trial about anonymous donations to the country's two biggest political parties… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 5 August 2022
5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6310454602112 Video, Audio
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What does the new Waikato Expressway mean for the small towns?
5:23 PM.It's a project 30 years and billions of dollars in the making. Now the completed Waikato Expressway is set to change the face of the region's towns and villages, for better or worse.
Checkpoint's… Read more Video, Audio
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Newmarket businesses urge protesters to follow rules
5:13 PM.Auckland businesses do not want a bar of a protest planned for Saturday, led by Brian Tamaki's Freedom and Rights Coalition. The group is calling it a "patriots march" and are gathering in the… Read more Video, Audio
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Dogs rounded up after fatal attack in Pānguru
5:10 PM.About 25 dogs have been rounded up at the Northland property where a man was killed in a suspected dog attack yesterday afternoon. And the search continues for at least three more aggressive dogs in… Read more Audio
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Police, negotiators at Levin property as stand-off passes 24hrs
5:06 PM.Police and negotiators remain at the scene of a stand-off in Levin where a man has been holed up at a property for more than 24 hours.
At least 80 residents of Bledisloe Street in the Horowhenua town… Read more Video, Audio
