Checkpoint for Tuesday 12 April 2022

6:11 PM.The Warriors are defending their response to a homophobic slur made by outside back Marcelo Montoya last Friday's rugby league match in Queensland.

Montoya will front the NRL judiciary tonight… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.MetService has issued a Red Warning for Tairāwhiti and Wairoa.

That means residents are being told to act now - to protect themselves, their properties and their animals.

It's just three weeks after… Read more Video, Audio

5:50 PM.Covid-19 may have ground the country to a halt in 2020 - but new figures show total emissions dropped only three percent compared to the year before.

It is the only year in two decades where New… Read more Audio

5:40 PM.The ongoing battle against Covid means ANZAC Day commemorations will be a little different again this year.

The dawn service at Auckland War Memorial Museum - which is usually one of the biggest - is… Read more Video, Audio

5:28 PM.Culinary crime or coup? Millions of hot cross buns are sold in the countdown to Easter and while the classic bun is still the outright winner there are some new kids on the block.

Brace for it - one… Read more Video, Audio

5:25 PM.Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the death of a teenager after having the Covid vaccine is "very sad" and "quite sudden".

He says the Covid Independent Safety Monitoring Board… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.The credit policy of Australian airline Qantas is going down like a lead balloon with a consumer advocacy group that says it's unfair and unworkable.

It could also see New Zealanders stuck with… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.Friends of a rising MMA fighter and father killed in a one punch attack want much tougher minimum sentences, akin to ones Australia has.

Today Daniel Havili was sentenced to two years and nine months… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.Extreme weather is forecast to hit Tairāwhiti and Wairoa from tonight, just three weeks after the last severe downpour tore bridges apart and destroyed roads.

Residents are bracing for a trifecta of… Read more Audio

5:11 PM.Have cheaper public transport prices got you out of your car - and onto the bus or the train?

The subsidies are part of a three month package to ease the pressure on peoples' wallets - but should… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.Landlord Paul Reid has been trashing some of his own tenants for their vaccine pass policies.

Whammy Bar on Karangahape Road still uses the passes for safety, even though they're no longer legally… Read more Audio

6:06 PM.It's the five finger discount that is costing us all in the long run. A 2017 study estimated shop lifting and retail theft costs more than a billion dollars a year, with businesses spending more than… Read more Audio