Checkpoint

A leaked tax return for US President Donald Trump shows he paid $38 million US dollars in tax on more than $150 million of income in 2005. Audio

Westland District Council is investigating all its contracts issued in the last three years after it was revealed it awarded a contract to upgrade water treatment plants to a company run by a cake… Read more Audio

Former Prime Minister John Key and his opponent at the last election, Labour's David Cunliffe have struck a deal to both leave Parliament without having to wait for the September election. Audio

Women only make up 15 percent of the IT workforce in New Zealand. A new competition challenging girls to design an app is hoping to change that. Audio

Auckland missed its water target yesterday, but oddly, Auckland Council is still saying the result is "good news". If daily consumption is more than 400 million litres Aucklanders will have to boil… Read more Audio

Countdown yesterday removed Palace Poultry eggs from its shelves. Countdown spokesperson James Walker tells Bridget Burke when the company first heard from the Serious Fraud Office. Audio

Damian White was team leader as six Armed Offenders Squad officers made their way into the house. He says he remembers a massive flash followed by pain and noise. Audio

Australia is considering requiring children to be vaccinated before they can go to childcare centres or pre-schools, but Jonathan Coleman says that would be detrimental long-term. Audio

A professor from Otago University says much of south Dunedin's housing area could be under water in less than two decades. Audio