Checkpoint

United Kingdom correspodent Edward O'Driscoll spoke to Melissa Chan-Green about a second host on the popular cooking show MasterChef UK being sacked, as well as customers at a London fish and chip… Read more Audio

The government has drawn a line under one of education's most contentious issues - today it announced a halt to building what everyone except for teachers call open-plan classrooms. Modern learning… Read more Audio

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

A new era beckons for the Black Caps. The side is set to kick off a new season, with a new coach, against an old foe. Sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Melissa Chan-Green. Audio

A nurse trainer has thrown her support behind student nurse and midwives calling for a law change so they are paid for placements. Australia has just introduced such a change there. Students have said… Read more Audio

Locals in the town of Waiuku are sounding the alarm over a narrow, bumpy road that claimed the lives of a woman and two children yesterday afternoon. Concerned residents have said Masters Road is too… Read more Audio

A Rotorua organisation providing sleeping pods for the city's homeless says they're being held back by council insisting that they get consents. The Village of Hope has been set up in a secret… Read more Audio

Senior Cabinet Minister Chris Bishop has launched a broadside at local government at a conference in Otautahi-Christchurch.The RMA Reform and Infrastructure Minister has said councils are crying out… Read more Audio

The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry has announced a half a million dollar support package from government and industry for flood-affected farmers, growers and foresters in the Tasman region. It… Read more Audio

The naming of a development team to play South Africa later this month has sparked a frenzy of speculation of who's in and who's out of the Black Ferns World Cup squad. Black Ferns XV coach Willie… Read more Audio

A spike in the number of bikes and cars illegally ripping up parks is being reported across the country. Tauranga, Rotorua and Auckland councils are among those who have said thousands of ratepayer… Read more Audio

Asia correspondent Katie Silver spoke to Melissa Chan-Green about a big day for trade deals in the region, as well as the man believed to be the world's oldest marathon runner who has died in a… Read more Audio