Checkpoint for Tuesday 25 February 2020

5:06 PM.Hannah Tamaki's Vision New Zealand political party has fired its campaign manager Jevan Goulter after his response to criticism of Tamaki taking part in a TV dance show.

Tamaki, who leads Destiny… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.One of the country's biggest fishing companies made nearly $27,000 in donations to the New Zealand First Foundation, which has been bankrolling the New Zealand First Party.

Records viewed by RNZ show… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.The four men charged with electoral fraud - including sitting MP Jami Lee Ross - will fight the accusations made against them, pleading not guilty in their first court appearance on Tuesday.

Mr Ross… Read more Video, Audio

5:25 PM.No worse, but no better - that is the conclusion of the Children's Commissioner following the release of the latest child poverty statistics.

While the government is claiming it's lifted more than… Read more Audio

5:32 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:39 PM.A West Auckland man who attacked his mother with a hammer before calling the police has been found guilty of murder.

Martin Marinovich was his mother's sole caregiver when he smashed her head with a… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.A top member of the Comancheros and an Auckland lawyer have been jailed for laundering millions of dollars for the gang.

After a large police raid on the Comancheros gang last year, the… Read more Audio

5:48 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has arrived in Fiji where talks have quickly turned to climate change and what more can be done.

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has sent a message to Jacinda… Read more Video, Audio

5:56 PM.A major conservation plan is being developed to protect the South Island's unique alpine environment from Himalayan tahrs.

The large goat-like animals were introduced to New Zealand during the early… Read more Video, Audio

6:09 PM.Police have confirmed they are looking into at least one complaint about a threatening and derogatory social media post made by Vision New Zealand's campaign manager Jevan Goulter.

Vision NZ leader… Read more Video, Audio

6:19 PM.A South Taranaki iwi is demanding answers after an ammonia leak at a South Taranaki meat processor killed more than a thousand fish and eels.

The leak at Silver Fern Farms' Hawera plant last week is… Read more Audio

6:24 PM.A programme to install webcams on Kāpiti Island is being expanded in an effort to clamp down on illegal poachers.

The first webcam was installed at the end of 2018 and another last year and it's… Read more Video, Audio

6:25 PM.A new front has opened up in West Auckland's tree saga, with a Ngāti Whatua representative delivering a stinging rebuke to the Waitematā Local Board today.

The plan to get rid of some 200 pine trees… Read more Audio

6:28 PM.A Huntly woman who found thousands of wasps nesting in her home says it was a beautiful thing to behold.

Karla Ferguson had seen wasps in her kitchen for weeks before she decided to check it out… Read more Video, Audio