Checkpoint for Thursday 26 October 2023

6:26 PM.Now for our next scoop: Auckland is hooked on a new flavour of ice cream combining two foods you'd least expect. After just a week of being open, Fugitoto made a splash in Epsom when it introduced its… Read more Video, Audio

6:10 PM.Cyclone Lola has destroyed schools and homes in Vanuatu, with more than 10,000 households torn apart, damaged or flooded. Four provinces in the north have been hit hardest as humanitarian aid groups… Read more Audio

5:56 PM.Now that the election is over, it's time for pastry professionals to vote for the best sausage roll in the country. More than 400 from across the nation lined up for judging in Christchurch today… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.A pipeline to prison is how in the incoming Chief Children's Commissioner is describing a proposed ram raid law. The bill, amending the Crimes Act, would see ram raid sentences of up ten years in jail… Read more Video, Audio

5:49 PM.Lisa talks to our rugby reporter Joe Porter in Paris. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6339884530112 Read more Video, Audio

5:38 PM.Winston Peters is refusing to apologise for his extraordinary attack on the former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - in which he wrongly accused her office of hiding information from the public about… Read more Audio

5:30 PM.Eight vital minutes were lost between police being told a shooting was planned at the Linwood Islamic Centre, and the terrorist opening fire. A senior police officer in the communications centre has… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.Christchurch ultra-runner Sam Harvey has stopped short of making history at Big Dog's Backyard Ultra in Tennessee. When we checked in yesterday he had been running 6.7 kilometre loops on the hour… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.Benjamin Netanyahu has stressed Israel is still preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza, but he won't say when. In a televised address the Prime Minister sais that Israel is raining hell fire on Hamas… Read more Video, Audio

5:10 PM.It's believed at least 22 people have been killed in another US mass shooting, this time in the town of Lewiston in Maine. A man hunt is underway after the suspected shooter, former soldier Robert… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM."An innocent child, who should have been safe, and loved." Police say a toddler who was killed in Lower Hutt on Sunday was taken to hospital at least 12 hours after he was injured. The death of… Read more Audio