Checkpoint

NZ Blood is stockpiling plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients so it can be used in international clinical trials or more widely if it's proven to be an effective treatment.

This week the US food… Read more Video, Audio

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

The government has called in the GCSB to help get to the bottom of the cyber attacks on the NZX.

The stock exchange has been hit four times in as many days - crippling its website and bringing a halt… Read more Video, Audio

While many businesses around the country are taking a battering because of Covid-19, a real estate agent in the Coromandel Peninsula is enjoying his best August in five years.

The Coromandel is… Read more Video, Audio

More than 156,000 jobs are being supported by the latest round of the wage subsidy scheme and businesses say it's a desperately needed lifeline to get them through a second lockdown.

The so-called… Read more Audio

"We are nearly there, but the job is not quite done". That's according to the Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, who says Auckland will leave Covid-19 alert level 3 on Sunday night, despite another… Read more Audio

The government is refusing to back down on a controversial decision to put nearly $12 million into a privately-owned Green School in Taranaki.

Green Party co-leader James Shaw, who championed the… Read more Audio

The government has pulled in the heavyweights to investigate attacks on the NZX.

The stock exchange has been the victim of attacks for four days in a row. Its website has been to its knees and as a… Read more Audio

Checkpoint's programme finishes with voices of those whose lives have been changed forever because of the events of March 15 last year.

There were nearly 100 victim impact statements delivered in… Read more Video, Audio

The Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield was greeted by hundreds of protesters this morning when he arrived at a meeting with the beleaguered Canterbury District Health Board.

The top… Read more Audio

The government has injected hundreds of millions of dollars into a fund to secure a Covid-19 vaccine, but it will not say exactly how much, as it does not want to compromise its ability to do a deal.

Vegetable growers in Pukekohe say lessons need to be learnt for any future Covid-19 lockdowns, as some essential workers are still being turned away at the border.

The Ministry of Health is swamped… Read more Audio