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Tuesday, 11 October 2022
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In debt Ruapehu skifields company in voluntary administration
11 Oct 2022Ruapehu Alpine Lifts has been put into voluntary administration.
The company operates the Whakapapa and Tūroa skifields in the central North Island.
Our reporter Katie Todd has the details.
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NZ Post opens new Wellington depot with automated processing
11 Oct 2022New Zealand Post has opened a new Wellington depot - the first automated processing hub in the lower North Island with its own super sorter machine.
Visual journalist Samuel Rillstone went to see how… Read more Video, Audio
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Second mass stranding of whales on Rekohu 'unbelievable'
11 Oct 2022'Unbelievable'. That's the word the Mayor of the Chatham Islands is using to describe the second mass stranding of pilot whales in less than a week.
Almost 500 have beached since Friday in two… Read more Audio
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Only six Auckland outlets get bollards approved from Jan-Aug
11 Oct 2022Despite a swathe of ram raids across the city, just six Auckland businesses had their applications for bollards approved in the first eight months of this year.
Data obtained by Checkpoint under the… Read more Video, Audio
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Beef and Lamb NZ respond to agriculture emissions scheme
11 Oct 2022Farmers are claiming the government's new agriculture emissions scheme could put farmers out business.
The government plan unveiled today will see famers pay for pollution by 2025 and is largely… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 11 October 2022
11 Oct 2022News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Cricket: Black Caps announce two tours of Pakistan
11 Oct 2022The Black Caps will make up for their 11th-hour withdrawal from Pakistan last year by touring there twice in the space of five months.
While the double tours come as a result of that hasty exit due… Read more Video, Audio
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Immigration just part of answer to nursing shortage - Health Minister
11 Oct 2022Only 22 nurses have arrived in New Zealand from overseas since the government unveiled incentives to coax health workers here. They are among the 341 new additions to nursing in the past three months.
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Crown appeals sentence for convicted teen rapist
11 Oct 2022The Crown has been appealing the sentence handed down to 18 year old Jayden Meyer, who raped four girls and sexually violated another.
Meyer was a minor at the time of his offending. He was sentenced… Read more Video, Audio
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Govt announces agricultural emissions reduction plan, based on He Waka Eke Noa
Farmers will start paying for emissions by 2025. The government's gone with He Waka Eke Noa's sector consultation document - with some tweaks around the pricing scheme.
There'll be two separate taxes… Read more Video, Audio
Monday, 10 October 2022
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Auckland Council chief executive on Wayne Brown's first day
10 Oct 2022Auckland Council chief executive Jim Stabback says there are financial challenges that need solving in the council's books, especially in an environment of high inflation.
"All the information we… Read more Video, Audio
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Coroner's inquest begins into death of Alo Ngata in police cell
10 Oct 2022The coroner's inquest into the death of a man who was left face-down in a police cell with an incorrectly fitted spit hood covering his face has begun in Auckland today. The man's family filled the… Read more 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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