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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.
Monday to Friday, 4-6pm
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Monday, 8 August 2022
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One dog from Panguru property still on loose in Far North
The Far North District Council has confirmed one of the dogs from Panguru property is still on the lose and none of the animals rounded up were registered.
General Manager District Services Dean… Read more Video, Audio
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Panguru dog attack: Family want answers from boarder
Police in the Far North say it's likely a man mauled in Panguru was not attacked by his own dogs.
Neville Thomson was found dead at his property on Thursday. Twenty five dogs have been rounded up as… Read more Audio
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National's Uffindell admits to attack on fellow school student
It has been revealed the National Party's newest MP was asked to leave a prestigious boarding school, after a night-time attack on a younger boy. Read more Audio
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Commonwealth Games: NZ cyclist Aaron Gate makes history at Birmingham
8 Aug 2022Almost a year to the day since a horrible crash at the Tokyo Olympics - cyclist Aaron Gate wrote himself into New Zealand sporting folklore in Birmingham.
He wasn't alone on another golden day for… Read more Audio
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Social Development Minister responds to National benefit policy
8 Aug 2022Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni discusses unemployment numbers with Lisa Owen.
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National's beneficiary policy faces criticism
8 Aug 2022National and Labour are trading blows over young beneficiaries after Christopher Luxon revealed the number of under-25-year-olds on a jobseekers allowance has jumped 50 percent in the past five years… Read more Audio
Friday, 5 August 2022
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Taranaki Mountain Airs send off 'Aunty' in style
5 Aug 2022The Taranaki Mountain Airs basketball team couldn't have scripted a better home send-off for retiring veteran Aaron Baily-Nowell aka 'Aunty'. Cellar-dwellers last season, the New Plymouth-based side… Read more Video, Audio
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NZ workforce hit hard by major rise in winter illnesses
The country's work force has been stretched over the past few months as Covid-19 cases and winter illnesses dramatically increase. One hotel boss has called the endless staff shortage the worst he has… Read more Audio
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All Waitakere dams full after Auckland's second wettest July
5 Aug 2022All of Auckland's western dams are full after the country's wettest July on record. Read more Video, Audio
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Andrew Little, Andrew Campbell witnesses in donations case
5 Aug 2022Former Labour Party leader Andrew Little and the Prime Minister's chief press secretary have appeared as witnesses in a trial about anonymous donations to the country's two biggest political parties… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 5 August 2022
5 Aug 2022News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6310454602112 Video, Audio
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What does the new Waikato Expressway mean for the small towns?
5 Aug 2022It's a project 30 years and billions of dollars in the making. Now the completed Waikato Expressway is set to change the face of the region's towns and villages, for better or worse.
Checkpoint's… Read more Video, 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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