Checkpoint for Monday 24 June 2013

6:57 PM.An affluent Auckland school's trying out a radical new approach to digital learning. Audio

6:53 PM.A Victoria University researcher has discovered the North Island robin can recognise different people. Audio

6:46 PM.More than two hundred hapu members have marched to their local council - to reinforce their opposition to a major roading project planned for Rotorua; The FIRST Union says it wants to hold urgent… Read more Audio

6:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:22 PM.From next week people will be able to move money in complying Australian superannuation schemes into KiwiSaver. Audio

6:19 PM.The police are still deciding what charges they will lay against a man arrested after a string of home invasions, where a man posing as a police officer, was targeting the elderly in Auckland. Audio

6:16 PM.The Dunedin City Council is to raise rates by four percent, double what the rise could have been if it wasn't speeding up the debt repayments on its controversial 200-million dollar stadium. Audio

6:13 PM.It could be next week before power is full restored to households in and around Wellington. Audio

6:09 PM.New Zealand has had a net immigration gain of 17 hundred people in May mainly due to fewer people leaving for Australia. Audio

5:53 PM.An American intent on solving the mystery of pilot, Amelia Earhart, is heading to Christchurch to see what he calls a gold mine of photos. Audio

5:50 PM.The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party candidate for the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election says he got a fantastic response from people when he traversed the East cape; The Rotorua District Councillor, Maureen… Read more Audio

5:42 PM.The Law Society has condemned plans to extend the spying powers of the Government Communications Security Bureau saying the country is sleepwalking into alarming changes. Audio

5:39 PM.The electronic surveillance whistleblower, Edward Snowden, is in Moscow while reportedly preparing to travel to Ecuador where he's seeking asylum after he fled Hong Kong over the weekend. Audio

5:37 PM.A coroner has found a prominent Kapiti Coast couple died in a suicide pact, after the husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Audio

5:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:28 PM.A convicted killer, who's been captured in Queensland's Sunshine Coast after being on the run for 15-years, has been travelling on a fake New Zealand passport. Audio

5:25 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:20 PM.To South Africa now, where Nelson Mandela remains in hospital in a critical condition. Audio

5:17 PM.Helicopters, bulldozers and teams of volunteers are out in force helping snowed-in farms and stranded stock throughout the Otago and Canterbury high country. Audio

5:14 PM.Unprecedented damage to rail lines caused by the Wellington storm will disrupt commuter train travel all week, pushing more traffic on to the motorway. Audio

5:12 PM.Net migration has hits its highest monthly level in 3-and-a-half years, the gain mostly down to fewer people leaving for Australia. Audio

5:09 PM.The Government is struggling to convince United Future and New Zealand First to support its plan to extend the powers of the country's electronic spy agency. Audio

5:00 PM.Will the government get enough votes to allow the GCSB to spy on New Zealanders? The rush to save snow-stranded stock in the south and a convicted killer, on the run for 15-years, was travelling on a… Read more Audio