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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

5:43 PM.Housing has emerged as the key election battlefield between the major parties in the Australian election campaign ahead of the May 3rd ballot. Australia correspondent Nick Grimm spoke to Lisa Owen. Audio

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

5:31 PM.A New Zealand football referee will be wearing a body camera when he officiates at the Club World Cup in June. Waikato's Campbell-Kirk Kawana-Waugh is among 35 referees who will take control at the… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.A Northland man's been forced to fashion a prosthetic foot out of back shed bits and bobs after someone pinched the real deal. Russel Blank, had sent his prosthetic foot off for repairs at the… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.We all know someone who's been sitting on their restricted license for years or perhaps struggling to get a test slot. The Government says scraping the second practical test needed to get a full… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.Nutty, irrational policy, that is costing a New Zealand toy company billions of dollars a year in trade tariffs. That's how Zuru Toys co-founder Nick Mowbray describes US import taxes and said… Read more Audio

4:48 PM.The Public Service Association said hundreds more jobs could go at Health NZ - and affected staff have told RNZ they feel despondent, exhausted and anxious. Health NZ has confirmed it's consulting… Read more Audio

4:44 PM.Transgender researchers are disappointed Health New Zealand has been told to stop using the term "pregnant people" in favour of "pregnant women". The coalition has told the agency the use of inclusive… Read more Audio

4:34 PM.An iconic New Zealand music school, which trained many award-winning kiwi artists, has been given a second life after being canned due to financial difficulties two years ago. Former staff from MAINZ… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.18 year old Braxton Sorenson McGee is aiming to wear the Silver Fern in three different codes. But it was the rookie fullback's defining play in the Super Rugby Aupiki final on Saturday that has got… Read more Audio

4:24 PM.A new social supermarket has opened its doors to Hastings families struggling to cover the cost of groceries. People referred by social agencies are allocated a certain number of points to spend at… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.Donald Trump met El Salvador's president in the White House on Tuesday. The main issue on the agenda was a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and locked up in a notorious prison… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.Digital technology recommendations on the Ministry of Education website say children two to six years old should have minimal screen time, with a sessions a maximum of 15 minutes at a time. It's… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.Europe correspondent Alice Wilkins spoke to Lisa Owen about how 34 people have been killed in a Russian missile attack in north eastern Ukraine, one of the men who planned the Manchester Arena bombing… Read more Audio