Checkpoint

Otago University is being called punitive and mean for making staff who stayed home during a shooting threat take the day as annual leave. Audio

Mount Albert Grammar School is investigating after an email containing a pornographic image was sent out to all 2-thousand 7-hundred of its students. Audio

Ex All Black Mils Muliaina has had a sexual assault charge against him dropped in a Welsh court but his supporters say damage has been done. Audio

The Prime Minister, John Key, says there is nothing the Government can do to stop the woman at the centre of one of Austalia's most disturbing child abuse cases being sent to New Zealand. Audio

Police are recalling hundreds of state-of-the-art breathalysers after faults, and they're waiving any charges or infringements linked to them. Audio

Hundreds of breathalysers recalled, prosecutions waived;NZ can't stop Betty Colt being sent here;Players Assoc calls Muliana's treatment outrageous;Mt Albert Grammar principal says its investigating… Read more Audio

Government unveils plan to tackle childhood obesity; Warning fails to deter library from buying $75,000 forgery; One Tree Hill's seedling solution; Ak's giant tunnelling machine breaks through; Were… Read more Audio

The advocates for a Somali refugee who's been held on Nauru have disputed the Australian government's claims she changed her mind about an abortion. Audio

The Alexander Turnbull Library has been left embarassed, spending $75 thousand of taxpayers' money and donations on a fake painting. The Library, which collects national heritage material, bought a… Read more Audio

House price growth in Sydney is set to ease to its slowest pace in four years. A report by property specialist SQM Research says rental markets across Australia are squeezed by deflationary pressures… Read more Audio

A man accused of murdering his estranged wife had a protection order laid against him the day before she was killed. Audio

Students at New Zealand's biggest university will soon find out if they will have to pay more for their courses. The Auckland University council is currently deciding whether it puts its prices up. Audio