{"id":913,"date":"2021-09-02T21:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=913"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T21:46:44","slug":"five-checkpoints-operating-at-northland-auckland-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Five checkpoints operating at Northland\/Auckland border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At midnight last night, Northland joined the rest of the country &#8211; south of Auckland &#8211; in alert level 3.<\/div>\n<p>Auckland will remain at level 4 until at least 13 September, and police have set up five checkpoints at the boundary between the two regions.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ reporter Katie Todd talked to Morning Report&#8217;s Susie Ferguson from the northern border at the Mangawhai turnoff.<\/p>\n<p>Todd says it is probably the main checkpoint and it was a large operation and approaching you could see about 1km of road cones, flashing lights and a portable building in the middle of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Todd says there were about a dozen masked up police officers checking on cars coming in either direction.<\/p>\n<p>She says there has been a steady stream of traffic coming through with two or three cars every minute.<\/p>\n<p>She says police told her they had not had to turn anyone around this morning but yesterday had to turn around about four in every 100 cars.<\/p>\n<p>-Via <strong>RNZ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight last night, Northland joined the rest of the country &#8211; south of Auckland &#8211; in alert level 3. Auckland will remain at level 4 until at least 13 September, and police have set up five checkpoints at the boundary between the two regions. RNZ reporter Katie Todd talked to Morning Report&#8217;s Susie Ferguson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}