Checkpoint

Tertiary institutions are starting to set their fees for 2011 and the first three to do so have gone for the maximum increase allowed by the government. Audio

Small businesses are still counting their losses. Tracy Geerin's hair salon in St Albans will have to be demolished. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

Welfare centres in Christchurch are filling up as more and more people seek the security of company following a night of aftershocks. The latest round forced the evacuation of the Burnside High School… Read more Audio

Australia is about to find out who will form the new government. Audio

The days of aftershocks have got too much for the Wingfield family who are getting out of Christchurch in an effort to calm their deeply distressed children aged two and five. Audio

Independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott have announced they'll back Labor. Audio

All schools in the worst-affected parts of quake-hit Canterbury will remain closed until Monday. In central Christchurch, two multi-storey buildings will be demolished because they have been declared… Read more Audio

Canterbury schools to stay closed until Monday, Earthquake family tries to comfort traumatised children, Christchurch welfare centres start filling up, Independent Australian MPs back Labor… Read more Audio

We go to the UK now, where the police are looking at re-opening an investigation into claims of phone hacking by the paper News of the World. Audio

Flooding has forced the evacuation of up to 50 people from 10 homes in the town of Pahiatua in the Tararua District. Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio