Checkpoint for Wednesday 3 September 2025

5:46 PM.UK correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about the UK government's crack down on international students overstaying their visas and a new initiative by one of the country's largest supermarket… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:25 PM.Is the heart of Auckland city still beating? For the best part of a decade, construction of the City Rail Link has seen the CBD strewn with road cones and roads clogged with building sites. Businesss… Read more Audio

5:18 PM.A controversial cost-saving policy for carers for the disabled is being abandoned as part of changes to the disability support system. From next April, the government will remove purchasing guidelines… Read more Audio

5:06 PM.Senior doctors could soon be following nurses, who will walk off the job again tomorrow. The doctors are currently voting on whether to take strike action later this month according to the Association… Read more Audio

5:06 PM.New Zealand tennis player Michael Venus is through to the quarterfinals of the men's doubles at the US Open for the first time in his career. But he's not the only New Zealander still in the draw at… Read more Audio

4:52 PM.A court has heard the man accused of lighting the fatal Loafers Lodge fire told a psychiatrist voices in his head told him to burn the place down. It was also revealed the man had previously been… Read more Audio

4:46 PM.The Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey is heralding a new strategy for the country's eating disorder services as revolutionary. The reset, marking the first Eating Disorder and Body Image Awareness… Read more Audio

4:44 PM.A West Coast dairy farmer has credited his good old gumboots for saving his life when he was struck by lightening while out on his quad bike herding cows early Monday morning. The boots were Skellerup… Read more Audio

4:38 PM.Thousands of Maori from throughout Aotearoa have flocked to Turangawaewae Marae for another day of mourning and celebration, as the annual Koroneihana celebrations continue. The growing gathering… Read more Audio

4:34 PM.Public hearings are underway on a proposal to close a popular paper road on the Wairarapa coastline due to vandalism and destruction. The paper road, which runs through both Crown and privately owned… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.Former Silver Ferns captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio has revealed her next move. The star shooter has announced she'll link back up with the Central Pulse in next year's ANZ Premiership. It comes after… Read more Audio

4:16 PM.Asia correspondent Katie Silver spoke to Lisa Owen about China hosting its largest military parade in Beijing marking 80 years since the end of WWII. Audio

4:06 PM.Smith City, the well known furniture and electronics retailer went into voluntary administration yesterday. One Christchurch woman who paid nearly $4,500 for a lounge suite she's yet to see is upset… Read more Audio