Checkpoint for Wednesday 16 June 2021

5:05 PM.New Zealand's Cup looks set to sail elsewhere for its next battle. Team New Zealand is entering discussions with other nations keen to host the 37th America's Cup, after rejecting a… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.Royal NZ yacht squadron Commodore Aaron Young says the America's Cup is about billionaires and money, discussing the rejection of the government offer to host the next regatta. Read more Video, Audio

5:19 PM.Thousands of farmers flocked to the first day of Fieldays today, the Southern Hemisphere's largest agricultural event.

The event was cancelled because of Covid-19 last year, so expectations are high… Read more Video, Audio

5:23 PM.High profile mental health campaigner Mike King got emotional as he handed back his order of merit medal today.

He believes the government's mental health funding efforts have failed and no one in… Read more Video, Audio

5:27 PM.Dunedin teenager Erika Fairweather was today officially announced as a member of New Zealand's Olympic team at her school assembly.

The 17-year-old Kavanagh College student will likely be the… 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=6259091039001 Video, Audio

5:39 PM.Talks are under way with New Zealand's only oil refinery about potentially using the facility to make biofuels.

The Marsden Point refinery near Whangārei looks likely to be scaled back to an… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.Bones dropped off on the doorstep of the Russell Museum are baffling staff, archaeologists and iwi.

They're also concerned the remains - found on Saturday - are human. Sam Olley reports. Read more Audio

5:53 PM.Signs in te reo in a Kāpiti Coast town have prompted a graffiti complaint to the council.

But the Ōtaki artist behind them says the real problem is racism. Read more Video, Audio

6:05 PM.Team New Zealand has tacked away from a big chunk of money offered by the government, and could be headed off-shore to defend the America's Cup.

The government has confirmed it offered up a $99… Read more Audio

6:14 PM.It was a crime made to go online. Words spoken at the conference in Christchurch on terrorism that today looked at the role online hate speech played in the March 15 mosque attacks.

Our reporter… Read more Video, Audio

6:19 PM.A clinical study getting underway in Rotorua and Christchurch will provide valuable information on how our the population responds to the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.

The study aims to enrol at… Read more Audio

6:22 PM.Rumours of an illicit rendezvous have reached Checkpoint all the way from Whangārei.

There have been rumours a goose - a gander to be specific - had infiltrated a flock of ducks at Mair Park.

… Read more Video, Audio