Checkpoint for Friday 19 March 2021

6:13 PM.As New Zealand prepares to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, Checkpoint asked epidemic disease expert Dr Adam Levine, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University, to explain… Read more Video, Audio

6:07 PM.Queenstown businesses say the Tourism Minister's new vision is a promising game plan, but now they want to see action. 

Stuart Nash outlined his vision for the future of the industry at a tourism… Read more Audio

5:57 PM.Six60 hopes Eden Park neighbours will come to their show next month, after a long battle to allow big concerts there.

The local band has been given permission to perform to a crowd of 50,000 next… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.One Whangārei family is preparing to harvest the country's first ever commercial pineapple crop.

They're not the only ones turning their hand to tropical fruit growing, with bananas, papayas and even… Read more Video, Audio

5:49 PM.The mother of a seven year old boy diagnosed with untreatable epilepsy, wants to see more money put in to using the keto diet to treat the condition. Jake Parker was one of the first to be put on the… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.The Anglican Bishop of Christchurch isn't ruling out that at least 80 former students of Christ's College were victimised or abused while in its care.

Yesterday, Bishop Peter Carrell told the Abuse… Read more Audio

5:42 PM.Fixing Napier's brown water problem could take two decades and almost $300 million, a new report has revealed.

Since chlorine was added to the water four years ago, residents have complained of… Read more Audio

5:38 PM.It was sold as a blue sky opportunity, but businesses at Auckland's Commercial Bay say they're floundering.

The $1 billion development with more than 120 shops opened just as Covid-19 restrictions… Read more Video, Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6241842674001 Video, Audio

5:24 PM.The taste of champagne and sea salt has barely worn off and already new rules have been released for the next America's Cup, wherever it may be held.

With the Royal Yacht Squadron in the UK confirmed… Read more Video, Audio

5:10 PM.Two people are dead and another critically injured after a stabbing at a house in the Auckland suburb of Epsom this morning.

The police have been at the scene all day, and have cordoned off the… Read more Video, Audio

5:10 PM.The Tourism Minister is chasing the big tourism cash, signalling when New Zealand's borders open a visit here is going to be a much pricier prospect.

Speaking at a conference in Queenstown, Stuart… Read more Video, Audio