Checkpoint

News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6284447002001 Video, Audio

You may have noticed empty shelves at some supermarkets, particularly in Auckland.

Bare supermarket shelves, swathes of missing products, your favourite must-have ingredients missing.

Countdown is… Read more Video, Audio

Harsher fines and more restrictions could be on the cards for freedom campers, as the government tries to flush out the bad behaving ones.

The Tourism Minister announced a crackdown on some campers… Read more Audio

Learner drivers looking to lose the L plates won't be able to sit practical tests unless they're fully vaccinated.

VTNZ's line has drawn the ire of the Driving Change Network. It says hundreds of… Read more Audio

The new National Party leader Christopher Luxon is promising to revitalise the party, saying his relative inexperience in Parliament is an advantage.

The former Air New Zealand boss has been elected… Read more Video, Audio

The brakes could be on major summer festivals after the government revealed red lights for their regions in the new traffic light system.

Nita Blake-Persen reports. Read more Audio

For those areas in the red level of the new Covid traffic light system there are tougher restrictions, including 100 person limits in bars and restaurants.

Torben Land from the 2 Mile Sailing Club in… Read more Video, Audio

The Black Caps are facing an uphill battle to try to win their test against India, in India. Clay Wilson has the latest. Read more Audio

"Beleaguered and weary" in the back room fight against Covid - that is how the team of 4,000 lab workers is feeling after what has been described as a "war-like onslaught" for their services according… Read more Video, Audio

The Omicron Covid variant is spreading across the world, and with it fear of a major step-back in the pandemic.

More than a dozen people now have it in the Netherlands, eight in France, three in the… Read more Audio

Tairāwhiti will go red on Friday - one of several North Island regions to head into the tightest restrictions in the traffic light framework.

Our reporter Tom Kitchin joins Lisa Owen from Gisborne.

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Whangārei Mayor Sheryl Mai has told Checkpoint the red level of the traffic light system is not like alert level 2.

"It's quite different... We've been in a privileged position of level two, and… Read more Video, Audio