Checkpoint for Tuesday 3 December 2024

5:43 PM.Australia correspondent Peter Ryan spoke to Lisa Owen about Australia's house prices, especially in the big cities, being unstopped, Australia's biggest bank planning to charge people to withdraw… Read more Audio

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

5:31 PM.A Do Not Drink water notice was issued yesterday - after nitrate levels in the source water for the Lower Waihao rural supply were found to be above acceptable levels. But this isn't the first time… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.While Auckland may have won the first battle, the war between the country's newest, and its most successful football franchise, is far from over. Aotearoa's latest sporting rivalry writes its second… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.The Crown has described the case against Tingjun Cao, the man accused of murdering Christchurch real estate agent Yanfei Bao, as an absolute slam dunk. The six-week long trial in the High Court at… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.At least a dozen whales have died since a pod stranded on Farewell Spit yesterday afternoon and the rest of the group has now split and come ashore again at four different locations. Rescuers… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.An Australian egg producer whose chickens were infected with a highly virulent strain of avian flu said it has taken six months to get birds back on the farm and laying. An Otago farm that's managed… Read more Audio

4:53 PM.A recent study revealed a stark 10 to 1 male to female ratio for kakaruai in Silver Stream northwest of Dunedin. Researchers said it's a rare, real time look at the extinction process of a taonga… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.Auckland Transport has been stripped of its responsibilities, with Auckland Council to gain new powers over the region's transport infrastructure and policy. The overhaul will see the council assume… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.The Ministry for Primary Industries will start culling the 80,000 hens infected with bird flu tomorrow in a process which is expected to take up to three days. The jump in infected chickens comes… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.All Blacks star Sevu Reece has been revealed as the sports star guilty of wilful damage, after his name suppression order lapsed in Christchurch today. Sports reporter Jamie Wall spoke to Lisa Owen. Audio

4:24 PM.Someone has raided a south Taranaki garden that supplies the town food bank with fresh vegetables. This week's harvest has gone missing from the Eltham E-Kai garden, with thieves helping themselves… Read more Audio

4:13 PM.United Sates correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about Joe Biden copping criticism from both sides of the political aisle after issuing an official pardon for his son Hunter and close Trump… Read more Audio

4:06 PM.The cull of 80,000 chickens on an Otago egg farm starts tomorrow after bird flu has been found in a second shed on the property MPI said it will take two to three days to euthanise the chickens using… Read more Audio