Checkpoint

News from the Waatea team. Audio

The government's celebrating a slow down in unemployment - but the past month still saw 15-hundred new unemployment beneficiaries. Audio

The country's biggest privately-owned dairy farming enterprise has been put into receivership, following reports that the operation owes about $200,000,000. Audio

An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio

Relief aid work in both the Samoas stopped today as national church services took place to remember the victims of the tsunami. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

Metservice weather ambassador Bob McDavitt agrees the weather was very unusual for this time of year and says we could see a repeat on Friday. Audio

The New Zealand Transport Agency says a 'freak weather occurance' - not poor planning - caused hundreds of people to be left stranded in their cars in freezing conditions overnight. Audio

Our reporter Heugh Chappell is at the edge of the police cordon just north of Norsewood - he joins us. Audio

Helicopters with heat seeking equipment and armed offenders squads are on the hunt for a gunman who's been on the run in Hawkes Bay since yesterday afternoon. Audio

An academic who specialises in disaster management communications says New Zealand's response to disaster warnings could be much better. Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio