Checkpoint

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

"Just hang in there and give it some time" - that advice to a woman in managed isolation who has been in excruciating pain, vomiting and crying for days.

Josephine, a New Zealander who returned from… Read more Audio

Hundreds of Accident and Emergency centres and GP clinics across the country have been affected by strike action by more than 3,000 primary care nurses today.

Lunch-time rallies took place in… Read more Audio

The Prime Minister is managing expectations over the next step in the Covid-19 alert levels, which she will announce on Friday.

Jacinda Ardern says Cabinet will err on the side of caution when making… Read more Audio

Education Minister Hipkins has been dragged into the Green School controversy after a video was leaked of James Shaw saying he had given "verbal sign-off" for the bid.

Mr Hipkins has been actively… Read more Video, Audio

The Green Party's spokesperson on animal welfare says the incident in the East China Sea shows New Zealand must stop exporting live stock for breeding.

A cargo ship has gone missing during a typhoon… Read more Video, Audio

Japan's coastguard has rescued one person in the search for a livestock ship with 43 crew and nearly 6,000 cattle on board.

Two New Zealanders were on the vessel that's gone missing in the East China… Read more Video, Audio

School rolls in Auckland continue to languish, despite pleas from the Education Minister to get kids back into classrooms.

Some principals are still reporting turnouts of 50 percent or less, and fear… Read more Audio

MetService has had more problems with its website, after confirming it was the victim of a denial-of-service attack yesterday.

That's the same cyber attack the NZX was subject to last week.

… Read more Video, Audio

What do state schools think of the proposed $11.7 million funding for a private green school in Taranaki?

RNZ reporter Louise Ternouth and cameraman Dan Cook talked to secondary school principals. Read more Video, Audio

The pressure on Greens co-leader shows no sign of waning, after more questions today about him threatening to block other projects as part of his support for the Taranaki Green School.

James Shaw is… Read more Audio

Toyota is trying to track down the lead actors from a series of 1980s TV ads that featured Barry Crump and his city slicker sidekick Lloyd 'Scotty' Scott careering cross-country in a ute.

The TV… Read more Video, Audio