Checkpoint for Monday 5 February 2024

6:13 PM.There's a flood of experts with ideas on how to plug Wellington Water woes; yet the city is still hemorraghing 40% of drinkable water. Last week Master Plumbers told Checkpoint its members are… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.Government ministers have been booed, drowned out and heckled at Waitangi today, as the coalition came face to face with Maoridom. There were insults and protests and the deputy prime minister told… Read more Video, Audio

5:50 PM.Beware wandering sea lion pups, who are emerging from their hidey holes around Dunedin this breeding season. Many of the pups are now four to six weeks old and their mums are shuffling them off to… Read more Video, Audio

5:42 PM.Covid's closed a canterbury school today with almost 40 staff down with the virus. Rangiora High school told parents yesterday that it didnt have enough staff to cover classes, just two days into the… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.Fire crews in Canterbury will be working throughout the night to monitor and extinguish a huge blaze that's burnt through 80-hectares of forest and scrub in Kirwee. The fire, which broke out near the… Read more Video, Audio

5:26 PM.There were attempts to drown out ACT leader David Seymour with waiata as he spoke on the marae. The crowd quieted down after a member Ngāpuhi intervened. The same thing happened with his MP and… Read more Video, Audio

5:23 PM.The Black Caps are in firm control of the first cricket test against South Africa. New Zealand has racked up a mammoth 551 first innings total in Mount Maunganui, with Rachin Ravindra scoring his… Read more Video, Audio

5:17 PM.A leak in the Wellington suburb of Miramar has been spurting good drinking water into a drain at the rate of a litre per second for almost a month. Wellingtonians are getting increasingly frustrated… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.The Coalition came face-to-face with its opponents in Maoridom today, in a spectacular clash of world views , with neither side budging. The Government was welcomed to the Treaty Grounds with a… Read more Video, Audio