Checkpoint for Friday 12 December 2025

5:45 PM.United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about NATO's Chief issuing a stark warning for the west, as well as outrage over how much it is going to cost to support England at the… Read more Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:30 PM.A late kiwi sporting legend has had his burial site repeatedly desecrated. The graves of Bruce McLaren and his wife, Patricia were vandalised in Glen Eden yesterday, just three months after they were… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.Three companies have been fined a total of $345,000 for their part in a landslip that swamped a Queenstown cemetery and forced dozens of nearby residents to evacuate their homes during the region's… Read more Audio

5:17 PM.The disgraced former leader of Gloriavale is appealing his imprisonment for abusing girls and young women at the community. 85-year-old Howard Temple was this afternoon jailed for more than two years… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.Parents caught up in the play sand asbestos contamination scare are increasingly frustrated with retailer Kmart refusing to cover their testing and clean up costs. Several of the coloured play sands… Read more Audio

4:56 PM.Excitement is bubbling ahead of the New Zealand premiere of the Avatar franchise's third film this weekend. Avatar: Fire and Ash screens at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington tomorrow night, with stars… Read more Audio

4:46 PM.There is a renewed call for universal free cervical cancer screening in a bid to eradicate the disease. The State of Cancer report released yesterday shows Aotearoa has not meet its cervical screening… Read more Audio

4:28 PM.The Black Caps have taken a one-nil lead in the three-match test series against the West Indies after a nine wicket win in Wellington. Sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe was at the Basin Reserve and… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.Many parts of the country have been hitting temperatures in the high 20s - and even well into the 30s. So what's the best way to cool your house down without seeing your power bill soar? Is a heat… Read more Audio

4:16 PM.Australia correspondent Katie Silver spoke to Lisa Owen about the Australian Olympic Committee announcing new funding that allows athletes, who have given birth, to access a several thousand-dollar… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Last month Air New Zealand flight 946 from Auckland to Rarotonga got all the way to its island destination but could not land despite best efforts because of strong cross winds. Instead it had to head… Read more Audio