Checkpoint

As jobless rates and redundancies rise amid the covid fallout, a multi-million dollar boost to an Auckland jobs programme hopes to bring 700 more people into work. Read more Video, Audio

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

The deputy prime minister Winston Peters has had a successful, albeit unexpected, surgery this morning and is now recuperating at home. The 75-year-old visited the doctor earlier this week after… Read more Video, Audio

A young man who was humble, kind and had a bright future ahead of him - that's how Constable Matthew Hunt has been described as he was farewelled by hundreds of his family, friends and colleagues at… Read more Video, Audio

Southlanders have been thrown into turmoil with Rio Tinto's announcment today it will wind down the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter resulting in the direct loss of almost 1,000 jobs and another 1,600… Read more Audio

The police union is warning having a uniformed officer on guard outside all isolation & quaratine facilities 24/7 could actually make NZ less safe - not more. Lisa Owen asked Police Association boss… Read more Video, Audio

The Government's admitted another gap in its public health defences; there's no standard plan for businesses should they come into contact with a possible covid-19 case. The gaping hole in the system… Read more Audio

The army is getting an upgrade with the purchase of 43 Bushmaster armoured vehicles. They can fit and protect up to ten army personnel and are expected to be used both in New Zealand and overseas. Our… Read more Video, Audio

Claims of dirty politics, cries of anger and disgust, and clear bitter division. The usually circumspect arena of the Otago Regional Council chamber had it all this morning, as three-quarters of… Read more Audio

Meanwhile residents in Hamish Walker's electorate are shocked he's behind the leak of Covid-19 patient details to media. Hamish Walker won nearly 60 percent of MP votes in the last election - but a… Read more Audio

The National Party is in damage control mode, and urgently looking for a new candidate for its Southland electorate. It comes after MP Hamish Walker confessed to leaking the personal details of 18… Read more Audio

A Countdown branch was closed today as a precaution after a positive Covid-19 case entered its doors. Kiri Hannifin is the spokesperson for the supermarket chain and joins us now. Read more Audio