Checkpoint

New Zealand Rugby Players Association chair and former All Black Captain David Kirk originally hated the idea of a deal with Silver Lake. He joined the programme to explain what changed. Audio

After a year a half of at times bitter wrangling New Zealand Rugby has finally got its much sought after deal with US private equity firm Silver Lake.

The deal will see Silver Lake invest $200… Read more Audio

Checkpoint has been trying to reach some of the protest intermediaries who met Act leader David Seymour to discuss what he called a "mature de-escalation" of the stand-off at Parliament.

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A high powered security meeting has been convened to find a way through to resolve the protest at Parliament.

Police have rowed back the rhetoric on towing the cars and instead say they're taking the… Read more Video, Audio

Mannequins have decorated store windows for hundreds of years but in terms of size and shape they have stayed relatively the same.

Now there are renewed calls for them to better reflect the broad… Read more Video, Audio

The government wants to introduce new regulations that will shift the power imbalance between property managers, tenants and landlords.

New Zealand is one of the few countries in the OECD that… Read more Audio

A Palmerston North woman has been left dismayed, after waiting with her elderly relative for almost a full day in the city's hospital Emergency department, before they were moved to a ward.

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As yet another day passes with police seemingly unable to deliver on threats to tow the protestors' vehicles and free up the streets around Parliament, frustration is growing.

And images of the party… Read more Video, Audio

Ministry of Health has revealed there's been a surge in the number of positive Covid-19 cases in Pacific communities.

Pasifika people now make up about half of the cases in the Omicron outbreak. And… Read more Audio

Auckland council is looking at scrapping a rubbish bin tag scheme that was supposed to reduce weekly waste.  Read more Video, Audio

Protesters in Picton are digging in and refusing to leave - passing the deadline they had agreed on to leave.

Some protesters who couldn't make it to Wellington set up camp just across the Cook… Read more Video, Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report.

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