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Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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Monday, 26 November 2018
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Northland DHB wants to vaccinate more children against MenW
Northland DHB chairperson Nick Chamberlain says the 20,000 vaccines being flown in won't be enough to vaccinate all children aged between 9 months and 4 years and 13 and 19 years old, and the DHB… Read more Video, Audio
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Vaccination programme announced for Northland
20,000 meningococcal vaccines are being flown in for a three-week campaign targeted at Northland children and teenagers. The government says it had to act after six people, half from Northland, died… Read more Audio
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Friday, 23 November 2018
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NZTA strips another garage of its licence to issue WOFs
NZTA has just announced it has suspended Westland Mechanical and Tyre Ltd's licence, preventing it from issuing WOFs. It says this is because the company failed to check brakes, seat belts, steering… Read more Audio
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Coastal Pacific Rail Line reopens
23 Nov 2018South Islanders are celebrating the reopening of the Coastal Pacific Rail Line, which was wrecked by the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake. Video, Audio
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Union claims truck drivers forced to accept low rates
The trucking industry is being accused of competing for big contracts at the expense of their staff - and road safety. Audio
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Te Amiorangi creates Kotuku festival to support rangatahi
23 Nov 2018A youth group in the Auckland of suburb Glen Innes is using kapa haka to bring its community together after a decade of turbulent changes. Video, Audio
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Human faeces and sanitary pads spill into Auckland creek
23 Nov 2018A wastewater pipe in a west Auckland creek has ruptured, spilling human faeces and sanitary pads into the water. But it wasn't Watercare which discovered the leak - it was a local kayaker. Read more Video, Audio
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Police appeal for more info over pregnant woman's death
23 Nov 2018RNZ reporter Laura Dooney is at the remote Wairarapa beach where the body of a pregnant Wellington woman was found this week. Video, Audio
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City Rail Link's CEO on parent company's financial woes
The Australian parent company of the engineering firm set to build New Zealand's largest ever infrastructure project has gone bust - City Rail Limited's CEO Sean Sweeney explains what impact that will… Read more Audio
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Sports wrap with RNZ's Clay Wilson
23 Nov 2018RNZ sports reporter Clay Wilson has the latest news and happenings in sport - including the decision from Niko Jones, the son of All Blacks legend Sir Michael Jones, to stay in Auckland to play… Read more Video, Audio
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Canterbury Rugby League wants sidelines to be booze-free
Alcohol-fuelled abuse and assaults are just some of the anti-social behaviour that Canterbury Rugby League says is making its sidelines unsafe. Audio
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Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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