Checkpoint

Felicity Reid speaks to Lisa Owen about 9 players across mens and womens teams becoming Olympians for the first time and 15 players returning, hoping to add to their medal haul. Audio

Visual journalist Marika Khabazi asked people in Paeroa how they feel about Aotearoa's economy. Video, Audio

After two consecutive quarters of negative growth, GDP figures for the 3 months to the end of March rose 0.2%, some of the main gains in rental, real estate services and electricity generation, senior… Read more Audio

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich speaks to Lisa Owen about Louisiana passing a law requiring all public school classrooms have the Ten Commandments on display and the Los Angeles school board… Read more Audio

The lights are off and the powers out across massive chunks of Northland, grid operator Transpower has a tower lying on its side in Kumeu north west of Auckland disrupting the network, Northpower… Read more Audio

A woman who fractured her ankle has waited almost two years to be reimbursed thousands of dollars for surgery after ACC initially declined her claim, ACC figures show the average wait for a formal… Read more Audio

Africa correspondent Elna Schütz speaks to Lisa Owen about the lastest on South Africa's coalition talks, arrests in Zimbabwe and Uganda getting some precious items back. Audio

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

One of the sports biggest names has joined forces with one of its brightest rising stars to bring a card to Auckland later this year, Jonty Dine speaks to Lisa Owen. Audio

Frustrations have started to boil over at Parliament's first Scrutiny Week, with opposition MPs unhappy with the answers they're getting from ministers, Giles Dexter reports. Audio

Sail GP has abandonded ship on further races in Christchurch's Lyttleton Harbour without saying exactly why, but during the March event it's Chief Executive Russell Coutts was annoyed the first day of… Read more Audio

At a select committee hearing yesterday, Doctor Shane Reti doubled down on National's promise saying it would fund the specified drugs, but the cancer drug list he's working to is 3 years old and… Read more Audio