Checkpoint

A new programme is being piloted at two kindergartens in Nelson and Motueka to help tamariki improve their speech skills before they start school. It comes after research shows children have fewer and… Read more Audio

The All Whites begin the qualification process for the 2026 Football World Cup next week knowing they need to be the best team in region to progress. A team from Oceania will get automatic… Read more Audio

In tough financial times more of us are lining up to get credit cards, with applications at their highest levels since 2021. This despite overall demand for consumer credit dropping 4 percent compared… Read more Audio

Patients could die if plans for a new Dunedin Hospital are down graded and it's backed up by research, according to the Nurses Organisation. 35,000 people marched in Dunedin at the weekend, opposing… Read more Audio

A criminologist is calling on the government to invest in addiction programmes to treat the causes of crime, rather than spending billions of dollars on locking more people up. The government has… Read more Audio

Lebanon's capital has been pummelled from the air by warplanes and now its border regions are being targeted by a ground invasion. Although it had been signalled, it is a major escalation. Middle East… Read more Audio

There are calls to review the coronial system which can pit lawyered-up government agencies and bereaved families. Figures obtained by Checkpoint show that for two long-running inquests, Te Whatu Ora… Read more Audio

Residents in Lower Hutt say they're shutting themselves indoors and turning off the air con to stop themselves becoming physically sick from yet another wave of putrid odours emanating from the… Read more Audio

RNZ sports reporter Jamie Wall spoke to Lisa Owen about the lowdown of a stoush last year on the rugby field between Rieko Ioane and Ireland's Johnny Sexton and how it's become a bit easier to attend… Read more Audio

A flutter of kiwi feathers will soon be winging its way back to Aotearoa. There's 65 of the birds living at 18 international zoos or aquariums and the feathers they naturally shed are collected for… Read more Audio

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about Hurricane Helene leaving a path of destruction across multiple states, the vice presidential candidates set to duke it out on the… Read more Audio

You may have spotted what's believed to be New Zealand's first TV ad generated entirely by Artificial Intelligence. It's for Bremworth wool carpets and features a woman with tumbling dark hair… Read more Audio