Checkpoint for Friday 16 September 2022

6:27 PM.A kapa haka group's remaining members are reflecting on how far te ao Māori has come - 50 years on from its time in the spotlight.

Māwai Hākona won the second ever kapa haka competition in the… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.Preparations for the Queen's funeral are in full swing in London, with thousands of people continuing to trek to Westminster Hall to see her Majesty lying in state.

Our reporter Katie Todd joins us… Read more Video, Audio

5:57 PM.A Whanganui moggie has used up one of its nine lives after being rescued from a Phoenix palm in Goneville where it's been stuck for about two weeks.

Rio was plucked from the tree this morning after a… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.Aussie fossil hunters have made a heart stopping discovery: a 380-million-year-old preserved pre-historic fish with its ticker still intact.

The remains of the extinct fish known as a placoderm were… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM.For the first time, tunneling has begun under a major harbour in Tāmaki Makaurau. It's part of Watercare's giant waste water tunnel, which is expected to make the city's polluted beaches a thing of… Read more Video, Audio

5:42 PM.Parents rushing their sick children to Palmerston North Hospital's under-pressure emergency department will soon be able sit away from the weekend drunks and other distractions.

Design work has begun… Read more Audio

5:37 PM.Warning: Some of the details in this report will be upsetting to some listeners.

The father of a Christchurch-born young man shot by police in the United States, says his death amounts to murder.

… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.Otago is one of the least diverse regions in the country - and it's local bodies reflect that. But a growing number of candidates hope to change that at next month's local elections.

Our… Read more Audio

5:23 PM.A Christchurch townhouse developer is offering a one-year mortgage holiday at their expense for buyers who make a purchase by the end of October.

Terms and conditions apply of course. You have to be… Read more Video, Audio

5:17 PM.The Silver ferns have cancelled their two Hamilton tests against Jamaica, with the would-be visitors waylaid by an ongoing passport bungle.

The three match series was due to get underway at the… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has arrived in London ahead of Queen Elizabeth's funeral on Monday.

Over the weekend she will meet King Charles III and Prince William along with the UK's new Prime… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.Viv Beck has announced her withdrawal from Auckland's mayoral race, though she can still technically win the city's top job.

She is the second high profile candidate to pull out in the last few weeks… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.More than 20 students have had a lucky escape after their journey to school this morning took a terrifying twist.

The St Mary's College students were not far from school when their Coachways bus… Read more Video, Audio