Checkpoint for Wednesday 16 April 2025

5:42 PM.United Kingdom correspondent Alice Wilkins spoke to Lisa Owen about the UK Coroner looking into the death of the British tech Billionaire whose superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily last year… Read more Audio

5:32 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:24 PM.Auckland FC's lead at the top of the A-League table has shrunk in recent weeks but the football club still has one hand on the silverware. One possible scenario could see Auckland securing the… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.Brace for strong winds and intense downpours - as ex-tropical cyclone Tam lashes large parts of the country. The wild weather's already begun with more than 1000 homes in Northland losing power… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.Checkpoint can reveal concern at the dire level of full-time permanent staff at Taupō Hospital. Fixed-term and locum senior doctors there are relied on to fill glaring gaps, a situation the senior… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.A war of words is escalating between the Health Minister and senior doctors' union as its members prepare for unprecedented industrial action.
Health Minister Simeon Brown has claimed the doctor's… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.Left with PTSD and depression and feeling demoralised and demeaned. That is the rollercoaster of emotions experienced by a patient who got pregnant and had an abortion after a Doctor failed… Read more Audio

4:37 PM.Ex-Tropical Cyclone Tam is delivering heavy rain and strong winds to the upper North Island with Northland so far the most affected region. Metservice is warning the wild weather is expected to last… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge in athletics, but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a meet in the US over the weekend. The… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.Ecologists have discovered a handful of rare lizards during a top secret gecko census at an undisclosed location south of Auckland. The Raukawa gecko is considered at risk on the mainland  due to… Read more Audio

4:16 PM.China's President Xi Jinping is on a charm offensive to drum up business across the region. Checkpoint's correspondent in Taipei, Erin Hale spoke to Lisa Owen.  Audio

4:08 PM.There is much a do about piles of doggy do littering a popular Southland walkway. So much so the Conservation department's considering banning pooping pooches from Foveaux walkway near Bluff. It said… Read more Audio