Navigation for Station navigation
Checkpoint
Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
Monday to Friday, 4-6pm
Text 2101, texts cost 20 cents
Navigation for Checkpoint
Latest audio
Monday, 10 February 2025
-
Efforts underway in next phase of Israel/Hamas ceasefire
10 Feb 2025Efforts are underway in the Middle East to establish how the next phase of the Israel/Hamas ceasefire will be carried out. Just yesterday Israeli troops withdrew from the Netzarim corridor - a… Read more Audio
-
Pensioners feeling the pinch as weekly expenses creep up
10 Feb 2025Surviving on mince and sausages, and wearing secondhand clothes. That's the plight some pensioners face as weekly expenses creep up and beyond the amount of money they have coming in. Even those… Read more Audio
Friday, 7 February 2025
-
Japan's PM set to meet President Donald Trump
7 Feb 2025Asia correspondent Erin Hale spoke to Lisa Owen about Japan's Prime Minister set to meet President Donald Trump for the first time, India's Narendra Modi visiting Mr Trump next week, bad news for big… Read more Audio
-
Evening business for Friday 7 February 2025
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
-
Has the Cook Islands made the right diplomatic move?
7 Feb 2025After facing pressure from New Zealand, the Pacific nation has dropped a proposal to create its own passports. The Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown was pushing for local passports as part of the… Read more Audio
-
Monique Barry reveals messages and threats to her social media
7 Feb 2025Online abuse of athletes is again under the spotlight. Kiwi tennis player Monique Barry is the latest to reveal vile messages and threats sent to her social media inbox. Sports reporter Jonty Dine… Read more Audio
-
Health NZ CEO Margie Apa resigns
7 Feb 2025Health NZ has launched a global search for a new chief executive to lead the embattled agency with the sudden resignation today of founding CEO Fepulea'i Margie Apa. However, frontline health workers… Read more Audio
-
Slump in tourists and costs behind Fear Factory closure
7 Feb 2025The owner of a scary Wellington tourist attraction said a slump in tourists, and belt tightening, are behind its closure. Fear Factory opened in the capital the year before COVID-19 struck and the… Read more Audio
-
Teacher quits job to homeschool daughter as bus route cancelled
7 Feb 2025KC Jordon's daughter was catching the school bus from the small Hawkes bay community of Te Pohue to Sacred heart College in Napier more than forty kilometres away - but the route got canned at the end… Read more Audio
-
Govt working on law for tough punishments for police attackers
7 Feb 2025The government said it's working at pace on a new law that would mean tough punishments for people who attack police officers. A Waikato officer was injured last night after a driver allegedly drove… Read more Audio
-
Concerns new stalking bill could cause greater harm to victims
7 Feb 2025The Crimes Legislation Stalking and Harassment Amendment Bill was introduced and passed its first reading in December last year to make stalking an illegal offence with a jail time of up to five… Read more Audio
-
Man in IDEA services mental health unit victim of bullying
There's a call for accountability after assaults against a man ordered by the court to stay in a mental health unit run by IDEA services. Anne Hunt said her grandson, Daniel - who was sent the… Read more Audio
Checkpoint
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.
Follow this podcast.
Text 2101 (texts cost 20 cents)
Email checkpoint@rnz.co.nz