Checkpoint for Wednesday 26 February 2020

5:08 PM.The number of New Zealand retirees getting their Super while earning more than $100,000 has topped 30,000 - costing taxpayers more than half a billion dollars each year.

Figures released to… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.New Zealand is readying for a major economic shock as the world reacts with increasing alarm to the coronavirus outbreak which has now claimed 2,700 lives worldwide.

Although there are signs it may… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.As coronavirus continues to spread offshore, local Asian businesses say they're starting to fail as customers stay away.

Profits have halved for some Chinese restaurants in Auckland, and with the… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.If you have ever flown long-haul in cattle class you will know only too well the pain and frustration of not being able to lie down.

Now Air NZ has moved to patent a new economy class sleep pod that… Read more Video, Audio

5:41 PM.The government wants to see if people will warm to the idea of doing away with their high-emitting coal and wood burners.

They're also looking at tougher air quality standards, by monitoring smaller… Read more Audio

5:45 PM.The Immigration Minister is delegating more of his decision making to officials in the wake of the botched handling of Czech drug runner Karel Sroubek's deportation appeal.

Iain Lees-Galloway… Read more Audio

5:48 PM.The Prime Minister has seen real poverty in Fiji but says despite some New Zealanders also living in hardship, doing nothing to help the Pacific isn't an option.

Jacinda Ardern visited a settlement… Read more Audio

5:53 PM.Following a major blunder last year in which NZ Golf bestowed the winner of the New Zealand Open with a fake korowai, it appears the organisation has learnt its lesson.

A pōwhiri with participation… Read more Video, Audio

5:56 PM.New Zealand Football is quietly confident after completing the next step in their joint bid with Australia to host the 2023 Women's World Cup.

With a final decision around three months away - a team… Read more Audio

6:09 PM.The coronavirus outbreak is threatening to ruin the Olympics in Japan and has already disrupted Kiwi athletes' preparations for the games.

Senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound… Read more Audio

6:18 PM.Warning - recycling habits are proving dangerous in Auckland and someone could get seriously hurt, as canisters, lighter fluid cans and car parts biffed in the rubbish are the main suspects in a spate… Read more Video, Audio

6:24 PM.A network of gun emplacements used to keep out a Japanese invasion during World War II have been given a new lease on life.

The concrete bunkers and underground ammunition rooms at the entry to… Read more Video, Audio