Checkpoint for Wednesday 8 March 2023

6:19 PM.News of the sudden liquidation of the Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary - and possible euthanasia of 15 big cats - is causing upset.

The park houses lions, tigers and a leopard. Sam Olley reports from Te Tai… Read more Video, Audio

6:14 PM.A pregnant Coromandel woman faces a three hour drive on backroads to get to a birthing unit, instead of a 45-minute trip, because of the road closure.

Leilani Brown lives in Whenuakite. She's… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.A crucial Coromandel highway with a big hole in it, will reopen tonight at 7pm and will stay open overnight.

A chunk of State Highway 25 between Hikuai and Whangamatā has fallen away.

The hole has… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.For decades a former patient of the notorious Lake Alice child and adolescent unit couldn't return to the site where she was abused.

But now she'd like to see the psychiatric hospital's former water… Read more Video, Audio

5:39 PM.Three weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle and flood victims are still waiting to hear more details of the government recovery plan.

Major state highways are out for the foreseeable for Wairoa, Hawke's… Read more Video, Audio

5:34 PM.Officials are waiting to find out how contaminated an industrial area in Napier has become after floodwaters swept through three weeks ago.

The area in Awatoto is home to about 20 businesses… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.The Public Service Commissioner is writing to all Crown entity board chairs to remind them of their obligation to read the code of conduct and be politically impartial.

Pharmac chair Steve Maharey's… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.New Zealand Cricket are 'pitching in' to help communities devastated by Cyclone Gabrielle by putting some Black Caps memorabilia up for auction.

Money raised from the auction will go to the New… Read more Video, Audio

5:19 PM.Labour stands alone as the only party in Parliament blocking an MP-led inquiry into sky-high bank profits.

Every other party is on board - but the government says it makes more sense for the Commerce… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.Emergency doctors are worried the country's hospitals wont cope in the face of winter illnesses with patients already turned away from Auckland Hospital, because its ED was too full.

But the Health… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.SH25 at Opoutere is going to reopen tonight to light vehicles, after a washout grew yesterday to take out a lane of the key road to the Coromandel Peninsula.

The bus to Whangamatā Area School has not… Read more Video, Audio