Checkpoint for Wednesday 15 February 2023

6:49 PM.The red carpet has been rolled out for the Halberg Sports Awards tonight and there's some added significance behind the event this year.

It's been nearly three months since the death of the man the… Read more Video, Audio

6:39 PM.A Hawke's Bay lumber yard and sawmill that employs hundreds of locals has been completely swamped, with the last workers onsite carried to safety on a large loader.

Pan Pac on State Highway 2 at… Read more Video, Audio

6:35 PM.The small community of Aotea Great Barrier Island is in clean-up mode, after copping it from Cyclone Gabrielle on Monday.

The Local Board Chair is Izzy Fordham. Read more Video, Audio

6:30 PM.In the Coromandel town of Tairua residents are now facing a fourth night cut off without power.

Our reporter Leonard Powell is there. Read more Video, Audio

6:25 PM.Paramedics and rescue helicopters have been up and down the east coast today dropping off supplies and assessing the welfare of residents cut off.

SH35 from Gisborne to Hicks Bay is still closed and… Read more Video, Audio

6:22 PM.Some Dargaville residents are being urged to evacuate their homes.

The Kaipara District Council says people who live along River Road, and Victoria and Logan Streets, as well as side streets and… Read more Audio

6:19 PM.In Āwhitu on Auckland's Manukau Heads it's a story that's becoming sadly familiar.

Many people are still without power, and major slips have closed roads, isolating residents.

Checkpoint reporter… Read more Video, Audio

6:14 PM.Gisborne residents have been urged to conserve water, with the main supply damaged in the storm.

Tairāwhiti Civil Defence controller Ben Green talks to Lisa Owen. Read more Video, Audio

6:07 PM.Cyclone Gabrielle has gone but her legacy is the most catastrophic weather event in living memory.

The storm left parts of the upper North Island resembling parts of a jigsaw.

Wairoa is essentially… Read more Video, Audio

5:54 PM.The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle has reached four. Three people, including a child, have died in Hawke's Bay and a volunteer firefighter has been found dead trapped in a house in Muriwai, in… Read more Video, Audio

5:51 PM.RNZ reporter Kate Green is in Gisborne and joins Lisa Owen with the latest details.

The HMNZS Manawanui is sailing from Auckland with supplies destined for Tairāwhiti, and will deliver water supplies… Read more Video, Audio

5:48 PM.Thousands of people are stranded in Hawke's Bay without power, phone service, dwindling supplies and many are trying in vain to contact their loved ones.

Our reporter Lauren Crimp and cameraman Angus… Read more Video, Audio

5:32 PM.Prime Minister Chris Hipkins speaks at Parliament on the latest efforts following Cyclone Gabrielle. Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.Parts of the Coromandel have had a fourth day with no power. 

Thames-Coromadel Civil Defence Controller Garry Towler talks to Lisa Owen Read more Video, Audio

5:17 PM.Wairoa is completely cut off, and hundreds of people have had their homes swamped with water.

Mayor Craig Little says they desperately need help.  Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.A woman is still missing in Hawke's Bay after the Eskdale property she was housesitting was suddenly inundated with floodwaters early on Tuesday morning.

The owners of the house, Maik Beekmans and… Read more Video, Audio