Checkpoint for Thursday 27 April 2023

5:52 PM.'Get a better budget, bro'. Protesters gathered outside where Auckland councillors were meeting about the city's budget decisions this morning.

The governing body needs to find a way to plug its $295… Read more Audio

5:48 PM.A man who pretended to be a doctor at Middlemore Hospital has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail.

30-year-old Yuvaraj Krishnan pleaded guilty to a series of fraud charges. He faked a… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.Kmart staff in Palmerston North have been threatened with an imitation handgun and knives and fear more violence according to First Union.

It's been pushing for the store to fit staff with body cams… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.And returning to our story about the PM's pre-Budget speech. Chris Hipkins is again hosing down expectations, saying it will be "no frills" and definitely no new taxes or a cyclone levy.

But… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.The Prime Minister has hosed down the idea of a capital gains tax.. a day after his government released a report highlighting the unfairness in the tax system.

Speaking to a business crowd in… Read more Audio

5:23 PM.New Zealand Rugby is putting on a brave face despite posting a nearly $50 million loss in the past financial year.

In its annual report, NZR revealed a financial year loss of $47 million, a reversal… Read more Video, Audio

5:14 PM.Aviva Client Services Manager for Sexual Violence Services, Jo Bader, has assisted survivors in the case of two men convicted for drugging and raping women at a Christchurch bar.

She talks to Lisa… Read more Video, Audio

5:11 PM.A depraved web of rape, sexual violations, drink spiking - a five year investigation - and never ending trauma for the many victims.

Two men have been convicted of 68 charges in one of the biggest… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found an officer was not justified in shooting a man dead in Auckland in February 2021.

Tangaru-Noere Turia, a 34-year-old 501-deportee from Australia… Read more Audio