Checkpoint for Thursday 6 May 2021

6:24 PM.The government has released its 10-year plan for rail investment, signaling it is full steam ahead with plans to shovel in billions of dollars to get the country's rail infrastructure back on track.

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6:16 PM.The Royal New Zealand College of GPs medical director Dr Bryan Betty is warning Aotearoa may miss its end of year target for 90 percent Covid-19 vaccination.

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6:12 PM."Diversify" is up there with "pivot" in the buzz word department, and often thrown the way of the tourism industry throughout the Covid-19 crisis.

As part of the package announced on Thursday the… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.The South Island was the big winner in the government's $200 million support package aimed at helping Covid-19-struck tourism businesses through international border closures.

At an industry… Read more Audio

5:52 PM.Flights from New South Wales to New Zealand will be paused from midnight tonight for 48 hours in the wake of a case of Covid-19 in Sydney with no yet-known source.

Professor Tony Blakely talks to… Read more Video, Audio

5:48 PM.About 100 Hutt Valley High School students turned the front lawn of Parliament into a make-shift study space today to protest the state of their school buildings.

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5:36 PM.Fonterra is hitting the road to sell a new structure to its farmers.

It's a complex arrangement for the dairy cooperative, and may not be an easy sell to some. Jeremy Rees has more. Read more Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6252831575001 Video, Audio

5:26 PM.Australia is racing the clock to find out where a mystery community Covid-19 case has come from; with no obvious links between the infected Sydney man in his 50s and others with the virus.

Genome… Read more Video, Audio

5:19 PM.It's over for New Zealand cricket players commentators and support staff at the suspended India Premier League, as the tournament and India Cricket bankrolls a costly mass evacuation.

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5:15 PM.Three-year-old Axle Hamblyn has given a big thanks to all the people who helped find him.

The boy was rescued on Wednesday morning after going wandering on Tuesday and spending nearly 22 hours in… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.The government has thrown some tourism businesses an economic lifeline and also suggested some of them get out of the game altogether.

A $200 million fund has been announced for struggling operators… Read more Video, Audio