Checkpoint

Canada correspondent Ashleigh Stewart speaks to Lisa Owen about the coach of Canada's Olympic football team offering her first statement since the spying scandal, an army of bots supporting Canada's… Read more Audio

There are calls for power companies to offer wide spread discounts for low income families, it comes on the back of several big businesses warning rising energy bills could force them shut down for… Read more Audio

Australia correspondent Peter Ryan speaks to Lisa Owen about former chief executive of Qantas Alan Joyce having his exit package slashed, as the airline rebuilds its reputation from damaging scandals… Read more Audio

Karen Smith, former major crimes detective in the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office came to review Lachlan's death after being introduced to the case by her friend - psychic Kelvin Cruickshank. She shared… Read more Audio

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

Carrington has six Olympic medals, five of them gold and tonight, along with Alicia Hoskin, Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughan, she will look to lead the world champion crew to Olympic success. New… Read more Audio

The meat workers union is fighting to save jobs that are on the block at Oamaru meats. Up to a hundred jobs at the meat processing plant are in jeopardy and new figures show unemployment have risen to… Read more Audio

It's the second week of the trial of Polkinghorne, who's accused of murdering Ms Hanna and trying to stage it to make it appear self inflicted. Bruce Hanna, Ms Hanna's younger brother, today gave… Read more Audio

Renewable energy generator Manawa's revealed one of its customers has defaulted on its bill and that's contributing to a potential 55 million dollar drop in its forecast earnings. Today it has… Read more Audio

Research done by the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners surveyed 400 doctors over two weeks. It found those with 22 hours of patient contact time a week generally ended up working the… Read more Audio

Figures for the first three months of this year show the longest wait was 97 days at Rimutaka prison to see a medical officer and 91 days to see a dentist at Otago Corrections facility, with the… Read more Audio

The major power companies have been put on notice by a senior minister who has warned the government could intervene to help bring down prices. It comes after wholesale power prices doubled over the… Read more Audio