Checkpoint for Wednesday 3 August 2022

5:10 PM.The government has unveiled its blueprint for dealing with the unavoidable consequences of climate change, including the likelihood whole communities will have to move to higher ground.

The 200-page… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.It may not feel like it, but wages are rising at their fastest rate since late 2008, whipped on by labour shortages in almost every sector.

All the pundits predicted we'd see record low unemployment… Read more Audio

5:32 PM.The apologies just keep on coming from the leadership of the new mega polytech - first it was a mea culpa to staff, now it's to the Minister of Education.

Te Pūkenga has been beset with difficulties… Read more Audio

5:34 PM.Some residents enduring the rotten stench from Bromely's wastewater plant now want Christchurch City Council to pay for paint discolouration which is affecting their properties.

Testing of homes in… Read more Video, Audio

5:37 PM.Taking a domestic moggie on a walk about in one of our national parks could have catastrophic consequences.

That's the message from the Department of Conservation after a couple of Aucklanders were… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.The New Zealand team are hoping to get their hands on yet more gold on day six of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

A number of strong medal chances loom - several of those likely to be in… Read more Video, Audio

5:48 PM.Another ram raid - this time five youths, the youngest just 12, smashing into a storefront in Auckland overnight.

A car ploughed into the Royal Oak Liquor Centre - the police caught three young… Read more Audio

5:53 PM.People are flocking to an Auckland auction room tonight for the first time in almost a year after lockdowns forced bidding online.

And all eyes will be on a small Goldie oil painting expected to set… Read more Video, Audio

6:17 PM.There's fury in Italy, after a Nigerian street seller was beaten to death in broad daylight.

The attack was filmed, and the video shows bystanders failing to intervene. It's also raised questions… Read more Audio