Checkpoint for Monday 11 April 2022

5:07 PM.Auckland retailers have been hit by three more ramraid style robberies within 24 hours, sparking calls for greater police patrols in Auckland CBD.

Two of the raids saw vehicles driven through the… Read more Video, Audio

5:13 PM.New Zealand Rugby's released its long awaited report into the culture in the Black Ferns.

The review was sparked, in part, by an Instagram post by one of the players - Te Kura Ngata-Aerengamate.

In… Read more Video, Audio

5:23 PM.A grieving mother says Auckland Transport needs to do more to keep cyclists safe - after two deaths in the past two months.

Levi James died after being hit by a truck near the Royal Oak roundabout in… Read more Audio

5:27 PM.Checkpoint can reveal outgoing Labour MP Louisa Wall will earn up to $210,000 in her new role as a gender equality ambassador - a job that was not advertised.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and… Read more Video, Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:36 PM.The countdown is on to May mayhem on sports fields and courts around the country. It's the month when a bunch of us lace up our boots for the start of the amateur club season - boots that probably… Read more Video, Audio

5:41 PM.In its biggest deployment to Europe since the early 1990s, New Zealand will send an Air Force Hercules and a 50 crew to assist with Ukraine's war efforts.

They'll leave for Europe on Wednesday, but… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.An anti-mandate occupation in central Dunedin has come to a peaceful end, but those behind it say the protest will carry on.

A small group had occupied the Octagon since February 11, but they've… Read more Video, Audio

5:48 PM.Local bar Woof! is biting back at fake bad reviews posted apparently in retaliation for the pub continuing to use vaccine certificates, even though they're no longer compulsory.

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5:55 PM.Southland firefighters are concerned a fire that's been devastating conservation land could flare up and spread with more windy, dry conditions on the way.

The fire at Awarua has burned through more… Read more Audio

6:13 PM.Women in Rugby Aotearoa chair Traci Houpapa has told Checkpoint she is surprised Black Ferns coach Glenn Moore is keeping his role, after a report into culture in the team.

"It does send a message to… Read more Video, Audio

6:20 PM.Parliament is being warned to tread carefully with its approach to the Russian ambassador.

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee is investigating if it can summons the Ambassador, Georgii Zuev, before… Read more Audio