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5:36 PM.US Correspondent Simon Marks joins Checkpoint to talk about Donald Trump's first speech to Congress. Video, Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:27 PM.Z Energy has opened an investigation into why staff at its Kapiti station didn't call the fire service after a pump split, and instead sent a woman home with a free coffee and muffin. Video, Audio

5:22 PM.The sporting community, and all who follow sport in this country, are mourning the loss of the former Silver Fern Tania Dalton, who died this morning from a brain aneurisym after collapsing last week… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.Annette King will retire at the election and has backed Mt Albert MP Jacinda Ardern as her replacement, as has Labour leader Andrew Little. Video, Audio

6:24 PM.The rapidly changing tide at Tahunanui Beach is forcing the council to find a solution to stop the erosion, and worrying locals. Video, Audio

6:21 PM.Concealed in everything from false bottom suit cases and shipping containers to car-seat covers and exercise machines, the Drug Foundation says last year's record meth seizures are just the tip of the… Read more Video, Audio

6:17 PM.The Prime Minister has been accused of behaving irresponsibly by spreading anecdotes about Kiwis not being able to fill jobs because they can't pass the required drug tests. Video, Audio

6:07 PM.Rescuers reach the injured caver who fell at the 176 metre deep sinkhole this afternoon. Video, Audio

5:55 PM.Canterbury farmer Geoff Wallace posted a job advertisement asking for a non-smoker who, "wears his hat with the peak to the front and be capable of wearing his pants around his ass not his knees." Video, Audio

5:48 PM.Dan Lemmon, from Weta Digital in Wellington, won the Academy Award for Visual Effects for his work on The Jungle Book. Read more Video, Audio

5:38 PM.Washdyke in South Canterbury would be classified as swimmable under the new water standards, but locals says it definitely isn't. Video, Audio

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

5:25 PM.Basil Lloyd sold his house and bought a caravan after his wife died, but a mistake disconnecting a gas bottle left him in hospital with burns to more than a third of his body. Zac Fleming reports. Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.Police have released CCTV footage showing a vehicle seen entering and leaving a Riverhead quarry where a young woman was attacked at the weekend. Video, Audio

5:11 PM.Bill English denies he's scapegoating a few drug users to try to take attention off record high immigration numbers. Video, Audio

5:07 PM.A caver has suffered serious injuries abseiling down the deepest vertical shaft in New Zealand. Video, Audio

6:24 PM.Allyson Lock travelled the equivalent of 12 times around the world to be on a drug trial, but when the trial was cancelled without notice last year she faced paying $500,000 a year until a rival… Read more Video, Audio

6:20 PM.Amy Satterthwaite is the second person ever to score four consecutive ODI centuries, and the first woman to do so. She spoke to John Campbell. Video, Audio