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Thursday, 28 November 2019
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Woman sentenced over NZ's largest synthetic drug bust
A woman was sentenced in the Christchurch District Court today following the largest synthetic cannabis bust in New Zealand.
Forty-eight-year-old Fei He ran a $4 million synthetic cannabis operation… Read more Video, Audio
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Protestors curse mana whenua at Owairaka hui
28 Nov 2019Protesters at a public hui in Auckland cursed mana whenua of the ancestral maunga, Ōwairaka, Mt Albert, telling them they were colonisers and questioning their whakapapa.
The hui was called by Tūpuna… Read more Audio
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Measles death toll reaches 39 in Samoa
The death toll from the measles epidemic in Samoa has risen to 39 following the deaths of six young children overnight.
Checkpoint journalist Alex Perrottet is in Apia, where he says people are… Read more Video, Audio
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Urenui mudflats maybe contaminated with human waste
28 Nov 2019It's about as 'Kiwi' as jandals & pavlova - summer days with kids sliding belly first through piles of mud at the Urenui flats in Taranaki.
But a local school conservation project has discovered… Read more Audio
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Fire-damaged Auckland convention centre work to restart in Feb
28 Nov 2019Work to complete the fire damaged International Convention Centre in central Auckland is expected to begin again in February.
Fletcher Building told shareholders at this mornings annual meeting that… Read more Video, Audio
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Young Labour camp assaulter discharged without conviction
28 Nov 2019The young man who put his hand down the pants of two teenagers at a Young Labour summer camp has been discharged without conviction.
The 21-year-old stood trial in September after pleading not guilty… Read more Audio
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New gun laws 'racist' Waikato Mongrel Mob gang
28 Nov 2019A Waikato gang has come out strongly against proposed changes to guns laws, calling them racist, undemocratic and poorly thought out.
In what was a first, the Waikato Mongrel Mob Kingdom has made a… Read more Audio
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Kamal Reddy appeals life sentence for murder
A man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and her young daughter and hid their bodies under a bridge in Auckland is appealing his prison sentence.
Kamal Reddy killed Pakeeza Yusuf in late 2006 by… Read more Audio
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Speeds to drop permanently on roads around NZ schools
Speed limits around the country's schools will be reduced to make streets safer for students, with more speed cameras planned to enforce the change.
Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for Thursday 28 November
28 Nov 2019News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Ihumātao: Fletcher signals resolution imminent in land dispute
28 Nov 2019Fletcher Building is signalling a resolution over the Ihumātao land dispute is imminent, but won't be drawn on who it could sell the land to or for how much.
Fletcher fronted several hundred of its… Read more Audio
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Ardern apologises 'wholeheartedly' to Erebus victims' families
The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has apologised "wholeheartedly" to the families of the 257 people lost in the Erebus disaster for the first time, in a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the… Read more Video, Audio
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Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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