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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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Thursday, 27 March 2025
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Is a new waterfront stadium on the cards for Auckland?
27 Mar 2025Is a new waterfront stadium on the cards for Auckland or will Eden Park get a revamp? Auckland Council is currently debating which option it wants to back - with councillors spending the last hour… Read more Audio
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Kaimanawa wild horses champion preparing to foster
27 Mar 2025A champion of the Kaimanawa wild horses said she may have to foster a hundred from the herd with a DOC cull scheduled for next month and a shortage of people wanting to give the ponies homes. The… Read more Audio
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Warriors address scandal around assistant coach Richard Agar
27 Mar 2025Richard Agar was fined and suspended after he physicaly assaulted a journalist in Las Vegas back on March 2. Sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen. Audio
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Warriors address scandal around assistant coach Richard Agar
27 Mar 2025Richard Agar was fined and suspended after he physicaly assaulted a journalist in Las Vegas back on March 2. Sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen. Audio
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New Zealand authors books hoovered up by illegal pirate site
27 Mar 2025It's been revealed the illegal pirate site Lib Gen has hoovered up thousands of books written by New Zealand authors. Some of that work is now being copied by Meta and other AI companies allegedly in… Read more Audio
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Journalist releases all messages from US officials group chat
27 Mar 2025Sparks are still flying after the messaging misfire from Trump's war cabinet. The journalist at the centre of it all - has released all of the messages about the planned military strikes on Houthi… Read more Audio
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Point Chevalier residents receive notices to lower front fences
27 Mar 2025Some Auckland homeowners have found themselves on the wrong side of the fence, when it comes to council regulations. Several in Point Chevalier have recieved infringement notices asking them to lower… Read more Audio
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
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UK politicians debating new assisted dying law
26 Mar 2025United Kingdom correspondent Alice Wilkins spoke to Lisa Owen about how politicians have been debating a new assisted dying law but it could take four years for it to come into effect and London… Read more Audio
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Evening business for Wednesday 26 March 2025
26 Mar 2025News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Double header of cricket in Wellington
26 Mar 2025The White Ferns are chasing a big total against the Aussies in Wellington with the Black Caps and Pakistan set for later Wednesday evening. Sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen. Audio
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Police issue new appeal in West Coast cold case investigation
26 Mar 2025Quarter of a century on from a murder on a remote west coast beach police are appealing to people in Kakapotahi to hand in their firearms for forensic testing. David John Robinson was killed execution… Read more Audio
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Widow of Fa'anana Efeso Collins calling for inquest
26 Mar 2025The widow of late Green Party MP Fa'anana Efeso Collins is calling for an inquest into his death accusing the organisers of the charity event he was attending at the time of failing him. Faanana Efeso… Read more Audio
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About this programme
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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