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Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman will spend the rest of his life in a US jail. But lawyers for the former head of the Sinaloa cartel are already saying they will appeal the sentence… Video, Audio

Tuvalu is looking to use its climate change fight as a marketing tool to attract more tourists. The low lying coral atoll nation of just under 11-thousand people is the least visited country in the… Audio

A new Pacific wide Institute of Human Rights Research is being launched in Suva today. Audio

A new name is being proposed for the Basin Reserve, with a strong push for the Wellington cricket ground to be renamed ‘Support Women’s Sport Basin Reserve’.

Little blue penguins which ignored police orders to return to a sushi shop outside Wellington Railway Station caught the attention of DOC, police, passers-by, journalists and international media. Video, Audio

Residents of Dunedin's Baldwin Street are grappling with the loss of their title of world's steepest street, after Guinness World Records gave the title to Ffordd Pen Llech in the Welsh town of… Video, Audio

A long list of questions have consumed Black Caps fans since the team's quest to lift the Cricket World Cup trophy came up agonisingly short against England. Video, Audio

Christchurch's Antonio Hall, on busy Riccarton Road, is ablaze. Our reporter Logan Church joins us live from the scene. Video, Audio

Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa says tactics deployed by tobacco giant Philip Morris in targeting Māori to use its new e-cigarette are motivated by money and not concern for public health. She… Audio

Gisborne's mayor Meng Foon has been announced as the next Race Relations Commissioner, but minority advocates says he'll need to stop being a politician and start fighting the battle against racial… Audio

About 5,000 tonnes of bauxite ore, a raw ingredient for aluminium production, has spilled into a bay in Solomon Islands where a bulk carrier ran aground earlier this year, spilling thousands of litres… Audio

The professor of surgery at Fiji's National University says diabetes related amputations account for forty per cent of all hospital operations. Audio

Fifteen women and children have been killed in an early morning attack on a village in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region. Police say it has the hallmarks of a 'seek and hide'-type tribal violence… Audio

At least 200 chickens have made the west Auckland village their home...dividing people as to whether they are friend or rat-attracting foe. Now an Auckland Council report has recommended removing them… Video, Audio

A woman who got pregnant to her carer at age 15 when she was under the care and protection of the state says CYFs knew what was happening and did little to help. She told Lisa Owen she wants her case… Video, Audio

Vanuatu's government is defending its deportation of six Chinese suspects but concedes China did not disclose what the people are accused of. Audio

Attack on yacht off Ouvea investigated amid conflicting accounts of incident. Audio

The West Papua National Committee has voiced opposition to a reconfiguration of military forces in the struggle for independence from Indonesia. This comes as the United Liberation Movement for West… Audio

A Taranaki woman has gifted 100 new ball gowns to Opunake High School as a thank you to the school, which she credits for turning her son's future around. Helen Burley spoke to Checkpoint host Lisa… Video, Audio

A Vanuatu theatre and arts company, which has spread its reach to include youth and development work, has marked its 30th anniversary in Port Vila. Audio

New Zealand companies fail in securing contract for French Polynesia's largest tourism project. Audio

Guam's Governor Lou Leon Guerrero is under pressure to pause activities related to the United States military build-up on the island. Deep community concern over the military's plans at local historic… Audio

Last week, a group of Pacific scholars gathered for the Va Moana Talanoa session in Auckland. They wanted Oceania renamed Moana. But Papua New Guinea artist Julia Mage'au Gray says a name change does… Audio

Auckland Council is demanding action from a social housing provider after an elderly man lay dead in his flat for five days before being found. Bryan McGinty was found last month after neighbours… Audio