Checkpoint

A gardening guerilla who's turned a concrete jungle of a median strip into a colourful flower patch is being shut down by Christchurch council for safety reasons. Heath Ling planted out the barren… Read more Audio

United Kingdom correspondent Diane To speaks to Lisa Owen about the United Nations body telling Britain it needs to crack down on racist hate speech - notably by public figures and politicians, the… Read more Audio

The High Court in Auckland has today been shown the internet history, photos, and messages from the phones of Pauline Hanna and Philip Polkinghorne's mistress Madison Ashton. Polkinghorne is on trial… Read more Audio

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

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games start this Thursday and will bring together as many as 4400 athletes from around the world. New Zealand is sending 25 para athletes to compete across eight different… Read more Audio

The family of a patient found dead after he failed to return to the mental health ward at Palmerston North Hospital are calling for a review of the facility. Their calls comes as an internal… Read more Audio

More than two dozen of our future doctors may have to head to overseas after Te Whatu Ora didn't match them with jobs for their first year out of medical school. Te Whatu Ora has offered 538 students… Read more Audio

Hundreds of brand new homes in the Cardinal West development near the Auckland suburb of Massey have not been hooked up to a permanent sewage system. Instead the waste from 341 households is being… Read more Audio

The downpour has moved to Kapiti and Porirua which both have severe weather warnings in place, as well as Taranaki. There's already flooding across the Wellington region, while 50 homes in Greymouth… Read more Audio

It's been a wet and muddy day for lots of Wellington residents as significant rainfall has cause flooding and slips in the region, Bill Hickman speaks to Lisa Owen from the Hutt Riverbank. Audio

It's been a wet and muddy day for lots of Wellington residents as significant rainfall has cause flooding and slips in the region. In Kapiti, the heavy downpours have caused the flooding of properties… Read more Audio

With two Ruapehu mills set to close because of record high power prices, the government's promising action. As well as what it said are urgent actions agreed by Cabinet today, it's announced of the… Read more Audio