Checkpoint

The government has unveiled a major refurb of Auckland's controversial housing intensification plans. It has slashed the minimum number homes the city must plan for, from over two million down to 1.6… Read more Audio

United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about British Police assessing private jet travel information to and from a London airport over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

The drive by shooting which hospitalised a former New Zealand rugby league star may have been retaliation as part of a reported gang war. Matt Utai was shot multiple times outside his home in Western… Read more Audio

There could soon be a ban on amateur climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest in a bid to ease congestion and discourage extreme selfie hunters with little or no experience taking on the challenge… Read more Audio

A Kaihu local says complaints have previously been made about the same dogs that killed a woman yesterday. 62-year-old Mihiata Te Rore was visiting a person she knew at a property in the small… Read more Audio

The Health Minister won't say if the government has met its promise to blood cancer patients in New Zealand - that is that they have not been forgotten. Pharmac has proposed to fund two new… Read more Audio

A massive clean-up is underway on Canterbury's Banks Peninsula, which remains in a state of emergency after a wild storm. The main highway from Christchurch to Akaroa has reopened, but people are… Read more Audio

More changes have been seen at the top levels of Netball New Zealand after a disastrous 2025. Its Chair and three Board Members have made the decision to step down. Sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe… Read more Audio

A company has been fined $60,000 after it repeatedly sold electronics, including Bluetooth speakers and a tablet to an elderly woman even though they knew she was suffering from dementia and could not… Read more Audio

America's correspondent Adam Hancock spoke to Lisa Owen about Peru's eighth leader in almost a decade being ousted, as well as an ongoing fuel crisis in Cuba which has caused trouble for waste… Read more Audio

There are calls for a crackdown on alcohol advertising that can be seen by children and young people, including a black out zone around schools, kura and playgrounds. A group of Waikato University… Read more Audio