Checkpoint for Monday 22 June 2020

5:07 PM.Border protections have been ratcheted up again, as New Zealanders continue to return home in droves.

It comes after two new positive cases on Monday - one is a teenage woman who arrived from… Read more Video, Audio

5:10 PM.Residents at Auckland's Stamford Plaza are being threatened with legal action after going public with their concerns about plans for the hotel to be used as a managed isolation facility.

Last Friday… Read more Video, Audio

5:18 PM.A top epidemiologist is warning that people in Melbourne - and across the state of Victoria - could be facing another lockdown of up to two months.

Victoria has had to scrap plans to relax some… Read more Audio

5:23 PM.A New Zealand resident in mandatory isolation on Australia's Cold Coast says its seems much stricter there than it is here and he has not had physical contact with another human being for ten days or… Read more Audio

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

5:37 PM.Tributes continue to flow today for Constable Matthew Hunt, the police officer shot dead in Auckland on Friday morning.

The 28-year-old was killed and another officer shot in a hail of bullets during… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.After the police arrest of a tagger led to his hospitalisation, one barrister says cops should never use force for minor crimes.

A video has appeared on Twitter showing a video of Nikau Andrews being… Read more Audio

5:47 PM.Four jails denied inmates their basic human rights during the covid 19 lockdown, meaning they missed out on their minimum one hour daily exercise in the open air.

The Chief Ombusdman Peter Boshier… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.Warriors players and fans are as shocked as the rest of the rugby league community by the sacking of coach Stephen Kearney.

The former Kiwis coach was dumped by the NRL side over the weekend, the… Read more Audio

6:06 PM.The government is ramping up its border control measures amid two new positive cases today - both at quarantine hotels in Auckland.

One is a teenage woman who arrived from Pakistan, and was on the… Read more Audio

6:14 PM.Meanwhile, a man who arrived back in New Zealand to be with his dying father has described a hellish four days confined to an Auckland hotel room with no opening windows.

Chris Tunbridge is staying… Read more Audio

6:22 PM.It was a tearful homecoming of sorts for Te Raekura Redcliffs School on Monday morning - nine years after the Christchurch quakes forced it out of its origin location.

The school has been rebuilt -… Read more Video, Audio