Checkpoint for Tuesday 27 August 2024

5:42 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:42 PM.Australia correspondent Peter Ryan speaks to Lisa Owen about how airlines that unreasonably cancel or delay flights are coming under greater scrutiny to provide a better deal for jilted travelers. The… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.With such a deep pool of New Zealand talent residing across the ditch, the Kiwis are looking to reconnect Australian based players with their roots. Rugby League World Cup winners Stephen Kearney and… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.Tensions are flaring in a small Clutha District community with allegations of stock shooting, poaching and poor pest management in nearby forestry blocks. Farmers near Lawrence and Tuapeka said they… Read more Audio

5:18 PM.It's lights out for Beam e-scooters after Auckland council canceled its licence for allegedly contract breaches and refered the matter to police. A council investigation's found Beam has allegedly… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.Green MP and former Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter championed the previous government's Road to Zero strategy. The safety programme had a target of reducing annual deaths and serious… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.An Auckland Councillor is questioning whether the median barrier at the site of a fatal car crash at Ramarama, near Auckland's southern border, is fit for purpose. Yesterday's crash on State Highway 1… Read more Audio

4:49 PM.An expert's warning the wide spread under-grading of how difficult or dangerous mountain bike tracks are remains a potentially deadly problem and a single nationwide standard needs to be introduced… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.The T-shaped device is inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy, and normally a patient is told to take paracetamol or ibuprofen beforehand but that's only to manage potential pain afterwards. In… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Philip Polkinghorne's defence has suggested police are omitting information from their investigation at the High Court in Auckland today. The former eye surgeon is on trial for murdering his wife… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.The All Blacks are getting ready face the Springboks this weekend in South Africa. RNZ's sports reporter Jamie Wall spoke to Lisa Owen from Johannesburg. Audio

4:25 PM.A Kiwi cyclist has battled lightening storms, freezing conditions and avoided being eaten by wolves, to win the world's toughtest mountain bike race. Christchurch's Joe Nation rode to victory in the… Read more Audio

4:16 PM.United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about a disagreement over microphones having the potential to jeopardise the next presidential debate, a former US Armed Forces Chief… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.A gardening guerilla who's turned a concrete jungle of a median strip into a colourful flower patch is being shut down by Christchurch council for safety reasons. Heath Ling planted out the barren… Read more Audio