Checkpoint for Monday 17 August 2015

6:51 PM.The United States has overtaken Australia to become the country's largest wine export market, spending 372-million-dollars in the year to June. Audio

6:47 PM.A former social worker in south Auckland says people have become desensitised to the number of Maori and Pasifika families living in poor housing, garages and even cars; A bronze bust of the second… Read more Audio

6:43 PM.Canada has beaten out China, Australia and the US as the biggest foreign direct investor in New Zealand in the last two years. Audio

6:35 PM.A young man was left with a paralysed right shoulder after his doctor cut a lump out of his neck. Audio

6:23 PM.If the All Blacks weren't strong favourites to win the Rugby World Cup, they are now after smashing the Wallabies 41- 13 to keep the Bledisloe Cup. Audio

6:21 PM.A Hutt Valley pastor has gone on trial accused of molesting two young girls. Audio

6:18 PM.Contact Energy is closing down its gas-fired Otahuhu power station at the cost of some jobs, though environmentalists are pleased. Audio

6:12 PM.A third of patients with bowel cancer in this country don't find out they have the disease until they reach a hospital emergency department. Audio

6:06 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:55 PM.A bronze sculpture of the second Maori King has been unveiled at a ceremony in Hamilton. Audio

5:52 PM.A man's been banned from a Canterbury zoo after agitating the new gorillas to the point the 190 kilo silverback charged the glass, smacking into it. Audio

5:47 PM.One of New Zealand's oldest daily newspapers, the Oamaru Mail, is expected to be cut to a weekly paper. Audio

5:44 PM.Car maker Ford says the fuel use figures it advertises for its cars shouldn't be taken as real world examples. Audio

5:39 PM.Auckland's trains and buses are among the most expensive, in fact second only to London, according to a new report comparing 32 cities. Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:26 PM.A former All Black has pleaded guilty to his part in a drunken duck-shooting trip in Central Otago but wants to be discharged without conviction. Audio

5:24 PM.Opposition parties are questioning whether foreign investors are adding value to the economy when they buy productive land in New Zealand. Audio

5:19 PM.Indonesian searchers have located the wreckage of an airliner that crashed yesterday with 54 people on board. Audio

5:15 PM.New Zealanders can expect to be paying GST on online and overseas purchases, either imported or bought online, by Christmas. Audio

5:10 PM.The High Court has thrown out a bid for compensation from an innocent bystander who was shot and injured by the police as they closed in on fugitive gunman. Audio

5:08 PM.A woman in her 50s dying of cancer in an Oamaru rest home got such poor palliative care her daughter brought more morphine from home to deal with her agony. Audio

5:00 PM.Morphine brought from home to deal with mother's pain. Innocent bystander shot can't sue police. Online GST by Christmas. Searchers find wrecked plane in remote mountains. Labour questions value added… Read more Audio