Checkpoint for Wednesday 2 September 2020

5:07 PM.It is back to basics with the government's latest Covid-19 tracking tool - a paper pamphlet to be used by anyone who does not have a smartphone.

More than two million people have downloaded the NZ… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.It is back to basics with the government's latest Covid-19 tracking tool - a paper pamphlet to be used by anyone who does not have a smartphone.

More than two million people have downloaded the NZ… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.Business confidence has taken a hammering since the return of Covid-19 to New Zealand.

Retail New Zealand's report also shows businesses having trouble getting their goods into other countries.

As… Read more Audio

5:27 PM.The election campaign has swung back into action, with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters taking a crack at his Labour colleagues.

He has talked down the government's response to Covid-19, and… Read more Audio

5:30 PM.New Zealand Cricket is holding out hope it will get to host its international summer of cricket.

But to get it, it needs the government to allow international players to enter the country, and go… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:49 PM.The New Zealand leg of the World Rugby Sevens series due to be held in Hamilton early next year has been cancelled because of the global pandemic.

Hamilton has hosted the event for the last… Read more Audio

5:52 PM.Toyota is trying to track down the lead actors from a series of 1980s TV ads that featured Barry Crump and his city slicker sidekick Lloyd 'Scotty' Scott careering cross-country in a ute.

The TV… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.The pressure on Greens co-leader shows no sign of waning, after more questions today about him threatening to block other projects as part of his support for the Taranaki Green School.

James Shaw is… Read more Audio

6:12 PM.What do state schools think of the proposed $11.7 million funding for a private green school in Taranaki?

RNZ reporter Louise Ternouth and cameraman Dan Cook talked to secondary school principals. Read more Video, Audio

6:17 PM.MetService has had more problems with its website, after confirming it was the victim of a denial-of-service attack yesterday.

That's the same cyber attack the NZX was subject to last week.

… Read more Video, Audio