Checkpoint

Gore's famous giant brown trout statue is angling for an official name. The scuplture, made by a local artist and captured mid-leap, has proudly stood in the so called trout capital of New Zealand for… Read more Audio

United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Lisa Owen about a 13 year old boy being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a school stabbing, as well as British Prime Minister Keir… Read more Audio

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

Hamilton will play host to the Māori vs Indigenous All Stars rugby league match this Sunday, and for World Cup winner Kennedy Cherrington, the Māori jersey represents the pinnacle of the game. Sports… Read more Audio

The Salvation Army is warning that families are starving and is calling on the Government to urgently increase food aid. Its latest State of the Nation paints are dire picture of worsening child… Read more Audio

The Court of Appeal has heard from two further lawyers who represented the white supremacist terrorist who massacred 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques. Australian Brenton Tarrant is serving a… Read more Audio

The government has announced a surprise review of the Reserve Bank's actions during the Covid-19 pandemic - and it's due to land just months out from the election. Opposition parties say it is a… Read more Audio

An Auckland Neurologist says he is seeing increasing numbers of people suffering side effects from huffing nitrous oxide, with some users ingesting enormous quantities on a daily basis. Community… Read more Audio

There are growing calls for an overhaul of dog control laws with people in some communities forced to walk with weapons so they can fight off aggressive strays. Meanwhile Auckland Council's… Read more Audio

Over the past eight years a Far North Bay has been transformed from underwater wasteland to a thriving marine ecosystem. But the change isn't the result of an official marine reserve - it's because of… Read more Audio

A much-loved and long-running Auckland secondhand bookshop will live to write another chapter, having saved itself from closure. Hard to Find Books was struggling to find a new location for its… Read more Audio

It's been a big 24 hours at the Winter Olympics in Milano. Kiwi freestyle skier Luca Harrington flipped his way to a bronze medal in the slopestyle final this morning to claim New Zealand's second… Read more Audio