Checkpoint for Friday 11 October 2024

5:48 PM.A provider for a popular South Auckland foodbank said its closure will put even more pressure on other struggling food banks - and he doesn't know where the people it serves will now go. Dave Letele… Read more Audio

5:42 PM.Asia correspondent Erin Hale spoke to Lisa Owen about Taiwan having its national day, a South Korean author picking up the Nobel Literature Prize and a Nepalese teenager becoming the youngest to… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:33 PM.The government has outlined how it managed conflicts, or potential conflicts of interest, among ministers with projects included in the controversial Fast-Track legislation. If a conflict was… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.The All Whites are one step close to a third Football World Cup. New Zealand were too good for Tahiti this afternoon, picking up a 3-0 win in Vanuatu, sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen.  Audio

5:24 PM.An image of a Swastika was found on the phone of the person who acted as the closest referee for Brenton Tarrant's firearms licence application. The terrorist also sent the person - referred to in… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.The person accused of killing an elderly Wellington woman in January can now be named as her daughter, 53-year-old Julia DeLuney. Helen Gregory, who was 79, was found dead in her Khandallah home after… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.A Wairarapa health centre is heaving with new patients and having to rely on Give a Little, sausage sizzles and sales of donated jam to stay in the black. First Health and Wellness Centre is a nurse… Read more Audio

4:46 PM.The highly transmissable Covid-19 sub-variant, XEC has arrived in New Zealand, with one epidemologist concerned people will die if there's an outbreak of the new strain. This strain is a mix of two… Read more Audio

4:42 PM.North Dunedin students have been busy with bags and bin, cleaning up their neighbourhood in memory of Sophia Crestani. It's been five years since the 19-year-old University of Otago student died at an… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.Almost a thousand muscled and flexible athletes are jumping, flipping, twisting and balancing in Palmerston North this week at the national gymnastics championships. Olympian trampolinists are the… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.Sports reporter Jamie Wall spoke to Lisa Owen about the Black Ferns looking to salvage something from their up and down season tomorrow and how Harper Sandford went viral for his performance at a… Read more Audio

4:26 PM.You might think of the library as one of the last bastions of peace and quiet, a safe cosy space for allcomers. But worryingly, South Otago librarians are reporting an increase in aggression from… Read more Audio

4:18 PM.A group of Auckland pensioners claim Kainga Ora has been a party pooper quashing their regular Friday afternoon drinks. For 15 years the group of Ellerslie tenants at the complex, who age from their… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.In an email, Te Whatu Ora has told some staff they have to take three weeks mandatory leave and it needs to be taken from 23 December to 10 January. That amounts to 11 leave days and four statutory… Read more Audio