Checkpoint

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

National wants to scale up the country's managed isolation facilities, to start allowing more foreigners into the country.

If elected, it would allow private accommodation providers to offer managed… Read more Audio

Auckland residents are bracing for more commuter chaos when the Harbour Bridge's southbound lanes heading into the city close overnight for crucial repairwork to a damaged truss.

It's the first time… Read more Audio

The government is relaxing its Covid-19 border controls to allow hundreds of specialised workers into the country.

They include deep sea fishing crew, veterinarians, and people who drive complex… Read more Audio

STA Travel has been using New Zealand customers' deposits for overseas holidays to cover company wages and office rent, Checkpoint can reveal.

In its first report back to creditors, administrators… Read more Audio

A couple tricked into accepting a lower offer from Southern Response to replace their earthquake-damaged home wants a full apology from former Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee.

Karl and… Read more Audio

Laurie, the 30-year-old monkey who escaped a life in the circus to spend his twilight years with a foster family and his best friend - a cat - has died.

Laurie was first on Checkpoint in 2019 when he… Read more Video, Audio

The Abuse in Care Royal Commission has been told of a young man being assaulted by a teacher at a school for the deaf in the 1980s.

The commission has resumed its public hearings in Auckland… Read more Audio

There are mixed feelings in Auckland about the upcoming move to Alert Level 2 - with some ready for restrictions to be relaxed further.

From midnight on Wednesday gatherings of 100 will be allowed in… Read more Audio

A new strut will be in place on the Auckland Harbour Bridge in the next few days after a freak accident on Friday morning caused serious structural damage.

Strong winds struck two trucks travelling… Read more Video, Audio

The board of a struggling incorporated society, set up to help disabled people, spent $670,000 of public money and donations on consultants - including paying its own chairman close to $100,000 for… Read more Video, Audio

National leader Judith Collins is continuing to bat off questions about her party's $4 billion error in its flagship economic plan.

Ms Collins was back campaigning in Auckland today, visiting… Read more Audio