Checkpoint for Thursday 10 October 2024

5:48 PM.Australia's transport authority said New Zealander Blake Wilson was drunk when he stole a helicopter and fatally crashed it into a hotel, but it's not clear why he did it. The 23 year old flew a… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.Australia correspondent Nick Grimm spoke to Lisa Owen about Australia gaining a new political party and a summit underway in Sydney today, examining the harms caused by social media. Audio

5:37 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report Audio

5:33 PM.Community leader Dave Letele has confirmed his South Auckland foodbank will close for good after Christmas. Mr Letele runs a number of programmes in South and West Auckland through his business… Read more Audio

5:29 PM.Despite it being a year since they were last together, the Kiwi Ferns are looking to maintain their winning momentum ahead of their Pacific Championships defence starting later this month. A… Read more Audio

5:13 PM.Divers from New Zealand and Samoa have been at the sunken HMNZS Manawanui all day working out how to seal three diesel leaks on the underside of the warship. The Manawanui ran aground on the Tafitoala… Read more Audio

5:11 PM.In the past week Israel has issued several new evacution orders for parts of Gaza as it launches new military operations further into the north, according to the UN. That has displaced an estimated… Read more Audio

5:10 PM.Florida is being lashed by Hurricane Milton - with flash flooding, 200 kilometre an hour winds, torrential rain, tornadoes and a devastating storm surge.The monster storm came ashore as a category… Read more Audio

4:52 PM.There are now more te reo Maori speakers than ever before. Data from the 2023 Census shows that more than 200 hundred thousand people - or 4.3 percent of Kiwis - can hold a conversation in te reo… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.A West Auckland GP practice has been forced to defer tax payments and ask for a rent holiday because of a growing number of patients unable to pay.  Earlier this week we brought you the story of… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.A kiwi holidaying in Florida is hunkered down with Hurricane Milton expected to hit the Tampa suburb, where she's stuck in a condo as it makes landfall. Pamela East is staying in a ground floor… Read more Audio

4:27 PM.The underperforming Black Sticks mens and womens squads will put their national contracts on the line during the new Premier Hockey League. The four franchise competition begins next month and 44… Read more Audio

4:24 PM.Christopher Luxon is launching into his Laotian sprint, about to rattle through meetings with roll call of world leaders on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit. In the next hour, he's due to sit… Read more Audio

4:12 PM.The storm, which reduced from category 5 overnight, made landfall at category 3 this afternoon south of Tampa bringing wind speeds close to 200km/h, flash flooding and has left over one million homes… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.You may have heard the ads, asking for what are effectively human guinea pigs, people to help make medical research breakthroughs. They're after volunteers to take part in clinicial trials where they… Read more Audio