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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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Friday, 30 September 2022
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'Best news' Pike families react to drilling restart
30 Sep 2022'The best news we've had in 10 years' - families of the Pike River miners surprised but happy to hear police will restart bore drilling at the mine. Police ended their bore drilling operation in… Read more Video, Audio
Thursday, 29 September 2022
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Travel agents making a comeback as flights take off again
29 Sep 2022A once key part of booking a holiday is now making a comeback. Travel agents say they've seen a boost in customers as a result of challenges when booking flights. This comes after a flurry of issues… Read more Audio
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Grandchild of Gloriavale leader defends treatment of girls
29 Sep 2022A granddaughter of Gloriavale's Overseeing Shepherd Howard Temple has told a court he is respectful of girls and doesn't have a reputation for inappropriate behaviour. Joanna Courage told the… Read more Audio
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Many Nelson, Marlborough homes still uninhabitable after floods
29 Sep 2022Many residents in Nelson and Marlborough still haven't been able to return home after the floods last month. Some roads are still cut off and homes are unliveable. Local government and emergency… Read more Audio
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Dwindling dollar hits travellers and importers hard
29 Sep 2022New Zealanders venturing overseas for the first time in a couple of years are seeing their hard-earned cash evaporating. The NZ dollar has dipped to its lowest point against the greenback since March… Read more Audio
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Jet Park hotel reopens after years as Covid isolation facility
29 Sep 2022After two years behind fences and barbed wire, one of the country's most famous hotels is getting ready to re-open its doors this Friday.
Covid made Auckland's Jet Park Hotel popular not with the… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 29 September 2022
29 Sep 2022News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6312998189112 Video, Audio
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High speeds behind most road deaths, police call for lower speed limits
Speed limits around the country are coming under the microscope, with police suggesting they need to be lowered quite significantly.
In a briefing to the minister seen by Stuff, National road… Read more Video, Audio
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World Rally Championship starts up in Auckland Domain
29 Sep 2022The World Rally Championship was set to return to Aotearoa two years ago, until the pandemic got in the way. Now the rally cars are back for a 32nd time after a 10-year break. The rally starts with a… Read more Video, Audio
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Hurricane Ian hits Florida coast, winds nearly 240km/h
Hurricane Ian has made landfall on Florida's southwest coast packing winds of close to 240km/h, making it one of the most powerful storms to strike in recent years. From Tampa, CNN's Gloria Pazmino… Read more Video, Audio
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Immigration lawyer on new migrant worker protection bill
29 Sep 2022A crackdown on migrant exploitation could see guilty employers face harsher penalties be publicly named and shamed, and banned from managing a company. The government has introduced the Worker… Read more Video, Audio
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Davis apologises for telling ACT MP to 'enter Māori world'
29 Sep 2022Children's Minister and deputy Labour leader Kelvin Davis has apologised for comments aimed at an ACT MP.
Davis told Karen Chhour to "cross from her Pākehā world into the Māori world", in response to… 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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