Checkpoint for Thursday 24 November 2022

5:06 PM.Residents in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham are reeling after a worker at a local dairy was stabbed to death.

The 34-year old victim was looking after the dairy for its long-serving and much… Read more Video, Audio

5:11 PM.Auckland police detective inspector Scott Beard discusses the fatal stabbing at the dairy in Sandringham. Read more Video, Audio

5:17 PM.Police Minister Chris Hipkins says on the face of it Sandringham's Rose Cottage dairy should have qualified for fog canon funding and he has asked for a please explain.

The local neighbour hood… Read more Video, Audio

5:27 PM.Auckland Council's fiscal hole just got $25 million deeper overnight according to the Mayor.

Wayne Brown says the Reserve Bank forecasts unveiled yesterday have blown the city's budget shortfall out… Read more Video, Audio

5:32 PM.Athletes from two of the country's most successful Olympic sports have launched landmark employment proceedings against High Performance Sport NZ.

The group includes more than 60 rowers and cyclists… Read more Video, Audio

5:44 PM.Advocates are calling for financial abuse to be made a stand-alone offence, saying it's hidden in current legislation.

Those helping victims of family violence say almost all of them are financially… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.Crushed between rising interest rates and runaway inflation - why are households being forced to bear the cost of fixing the economy?

At least one leading economist reckons the Reserve Bank, the… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.The return of overseas tourists has already exceeded expectations, and the Reserve Bank is predicting that will increase over the summer months.

There's concern the sector will struggle to keep up… Read more Audio

5:56 PM.Sanford's scaling up its production of collagen extraction from fish skin in Marlborough - today opening its $20 million Bioactives Plant just south of Blenheim.

The centre will create new jobs for… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.It's just in time for the Christmas shopping splurge - a facelift for one of Aucklands' busiest and most maligned retail strips.

Today saw the official opening of a long-awaited facelift for one of… Read more Video, Audio