Checkpoint for Friday 16 August 2019

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5:08 PM."Misleading & deceptive" - that's how the High Court has described the behaviour of Southern Response - the state owned quake insurer.

And it could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. In… Read more Audio

5:18 PM.Police have launched a manhunt after an Australian tourist was shot dead in a campervan near Raglan.

The thirty-three-year-old man was asleep with his fiance when a gunman smashed into their van in… Read more Audio

5:20 PM.Former Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings is under fire for receiving a $4.7 million payout when he left the dairy giant last year.

The revelation follows the news the country's largest company… Read more Audio

5:24 PM.Exploding rat populations across New Zealand have conservationists worried and exterminators busy.

It's been blamed on a mega mast year - which basically means there is more food for predators.

And… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.The police have arrested the man wanted in relation to the theft of two police-issue Glocks from a patrol car in Gore.

Hori Gemmell was arrested late this afternoon and is in custody in Gore.

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5:37 PM.White supremacist Philip Arps is being accused of sending letters of a violent nature from his jail cell.

Arps was jailed in June for distributing the live-streamed video of the March 15 mosque… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.Hong Kong is bracing for more mass protests over weekend as China warns it could use its power to quell demonstrations.

The warning come as President Donald Trump urged his Chinese counterpart, Xi… Read more Audio

5:54 PM.In a little more than 24 hours time - the much anticipated Bledisloe Cup decider between the All Blacks and Australia will kick off at Eden Park.

A record-breaking Wallabies win in Perth last weekend… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.The police have arrested the man wanted in relation to the theft of two police-issue Glocks from a patrol car in Gore - but one of the guns is still missing.

They say the hand-guns were taken from a… Read more Audio

6:10 PM.The Pacific Islands Forum summit ended in confusion on Thursday night, with disagreement over the strength of commitments to combating climate change.

The day-long leaders' retreat again highlighted… Read more Audio

6:16 PM.An Invercargill Chinese restaurant has come under scrutiny after a box labelled pet food-only chicken feet was spotted in its rubbish.

But the restaurant says the feet aren't actually on the menu -… Read more Audio

6:19 PM.Comments by a Wellington City councillor that careless jaywalkers on the capital's Golden Mile might be the victims of natural selection has outraged some road safety campaigners.

However, Brian… Read more Audio

6:23 PM.While the All Blacks are fighting to keep the Bledisloe Cup, they might want to pick up a few pointers from the Black Ferns who humbled their Aussie counterparts last weekend and are expected to do… Read more Audio