Checkpoint for Tuesday 11 October 2022

5:07 PM.Farmers will start paying for emissions by 2025. The government's gone with He Waka Eke Noa's sector consultation document - with some tweaks around the pricing scheme.

There'll be two separate taxes… Read more Video, Audio

5:12 PM.The Crown has been appealing the sentence handed down to 18 year old Jayden Meyer, who raped four girls and sexually violated another.

Meyer was a minor at the time of his offending. He was sentenced… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.Only 22 nurses have arrived in New Zealand from overseas since the government unveiled incentives to coax health workers here. They are among the 341 new additions to nursing in the past three months.

5:22 PM.The Black Caps will make up for their 11th-hour withdrawal from Pakistan last year by touring there twice in the space of five months.

While the double tours come as a result of that hasty exit due… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.Farmers are claiming the government's new agriculture emissions scheme could put farmers out business.

The government plan unveiled today will see famers pay for pollution by 2025 and is largely… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM.Despite a swathe of ram raids across the city, just six Auckland businesses had their applications for bollards approved in the first eight months of this year.

Data obtained by Checkpoint under the… Read more Video, Audio

5:52 PM.'Unbelievable'. That's the word the Mayor of the Chatham Islands is using to describe the second mass stranding of pilot whales in less than a week.

Almost 500 have beached since Friday in two… Read more Audio

5:56 PM.New Zealand Post has opened a new Wellington depot - the first automated processing hub in the lower North Island with its own super sorter machine.

Visual journalist Samuel Rillstone went to see how… Read more Video, Audio

6:10 PM.Ruapehu Alpine Lifts has been put into voluntary administration.

The company operates the Whakapapa and Tūroa skifields in the central North Island.

Our reporter Katie Todd has the details.

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