Checkpoint for Wednesday 28 August 2019

5:10 PM.Police have arrested six people and snatched up millions in assets, posh property and flash cars following a big money laundering investigation in Auckland.

It's been an eight-month operation. The… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.All Blacks coach Steve Hansen dropped a major bombshell in his Rugby World Cup squad announcement, leaving out veteran prop Owen Franks and picking one-test flanker Luke Jacobson as they seek an… Read more Video, Audio

5:25 PM.The Police Association is accusing the National Party of playing politics on gun law reform.

President Chris Cahill says the Opposition leader is wrong to say the gun buyback scheme has been a… Read more Video, Audio

5:32 PM.The Waitangi Tribunal is slamming the Crown for letting our rivers and lakes get so polluted and for essentially blocking Māori from helping to fix the problem.

It has just released a landmark report… Read more Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:35 PM.Foreign students of a collapsed business school are still in the dark as to who will mark their final assessments and when they will get their diplomas, as Immigration New Zealand says they need to… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.The mother of a Mangawhai toddler at the centre of a murder trial has described finding her baby girl limp and unconscious.

Aaron Archer is on trial in the High Court in Auckland - accused of… Read more Audio

5:53 PM.An Auckland fast food restaurant worker says it's intolerable they were asked to effectively continue working after clocking out.

The employee at Burger King Queen Street says a manager called on… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.The Supreme Court has reserved its decision after hearing both sides in Mark Lundy's last-chance appeal to clear his name.

Lundy was convicted of murdering his wife Christine and daughter Amber in… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.A Northland man who admitted draining the bank account of a Far North Maori Trust to fund a lavish lifestyle has been jailed for more than five years.

Stephen James Henare was a trustee of the… Read more Audio

6:25 PM.History teachers are making one last plea to the government to make sure every school student learns New Zealand's history.

They argued at Wednesday's Education and Workforce Select Committee that… Read more Audio

6:27 PM.The second wave of gun laws is making baddies out of the good guys - according to the National Party.

And it says it unlikely to support legislation after seeing a draft copy that it claims was… Read more Video, Audio