Checkpoint for Wednesday 30 October 2024

5:47 PM.Africa correspondent Elna Schutz spoke to Lisa Owen about the French president visiting Morrocco, election day in Botswana and British actor Idris Elba planning to shake up the African film industry.

5:36 PM.Barber students at Taranaki's largest tertiary education provider are creating a buzz around the region with a community project offering free haircuts at schools.The students are smashing out… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:31 PM.US Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has warned more than 75,000 supporters at a rally in Washington that her opponent Donald Trump is 'unstable' and 'obsessed with revenge'… Read more Audio

5:23 PM.The Silver Ferns can make history with a win over Australia in Melbourne tonight. New Zealand has never made a clean sweep of netball's Constellation Cup series before, but with three wins from three… Read more Audio

5:21 PM.Health New Zealand is feeling the heat after revelations it spent close to 100-thousand dollars on catering for a finance conference a year ago. It's the second such case revealed by RNZ this month -… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.A staggering 80,000 school students were MIA for more than three weeks of Term 2 this year. That's like waking up one morning and the entire population of Palmerston North city just disappeared. A new… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.'We wanted to do right by survivors,' the words of Minister Erica Stanford in revealing a settlement top up for some Lake Alice abuse survivors. The government today announced that a group of… Read more Audio

4:48 PM.Air New Zealand said sustainable aviation fuel or SAF made locally from waste wood could create hundreds of new regional jobs and help with Aotearoa's fuel resilience and security. The national… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.School leaders say punishing families of truant kids won't fix the reasons why they're bunking off school in record numbers. A new report by the Education Review Office shows close to 80,000 kids were… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.New Zealand's top basketball competitions are expanding to feature two teams from India next year. The Indian Panthers will field a team in the men's NBL and women's Tauihi League from next season… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.Asia correspondent Erin Hale spoke to Lisa Owen on an apparent crackdown on Halloween celebrations in Shanghai, parts of India and Pakistan being covered in a thick layer of toxic smog and Mt Fuji… Read more Audio

4:17 PM.US Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has urged the United States to turn the page on drama and division in her final speeches to voters ahead of next week's election. She was… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.An Auckland company has developed what's essentially a debit card that can be loaded with money and given to workers so they can choose what benefits them the most and they can buy them without having… Read more Audio