Checkpoint for Friday 18 November 2022

5:51 PM.Amid a worrying shortage of bus drivers, a Wellington bus company is targeting the student market for recruits. Tranzurban is pitching the job as flexible enough to fit around study, and a chance for… Read more Video, Audio

5:47 PM.An international court has convicted three men for shooting down a commercial plane over Ukraine in 2014. The court found two Russians and a Ukrainian guilty of the mass murder of all 298 passengers… Read more Audio

5:42 PM.The Prime Minister has started a flurry of meetings with regional leaders at the APEC summit in Bangkok with regional security and economic issues to the fore. Jacinda Ardern started with a formal… Read more Video, Audio

5:37 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6315768282112 Video, Audio

5:29 PM.There's a lot of slicing and dicing going on in kitchens around the country and we're not just talking about food preparation. ACC figures show last year was a record breaker - with the highest number… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde's long wait to find out if he would be upgraded to a Commonwealth Games gold medal has come to an end. Wilde appealed to World Triathlon in August about a 10-second… Read more Video, Audio

5:13 PM.National reckons its reboot of boot camps will be different this time around. The revived policy would mean 15 year olds and older, who commit at least two serious crimes could be sentenced to boot… Read more Video, Audio

5:10 PM.Pokie operators will be on a tighter leash with higher standards and harsher penalties from next year. The government's set new regulations with a full review of the Gambling Act to follow. Our… Read more Audio

5:06 PM.A life sentence for a man who randomly stabbed a mother of four to death outside her Christchurch home will never heal her family's grief. 52 year old Laisa Waka Tunidau lay bleeding on the concrete… Read more Audio