Checkpoint

The massive boring machine working on Auckland's billion dollar Waterview Connection project has made its final breakthrough, bringing an end to a return journey it started in late 2013. Audio

Trees are to be replanted at the summit of Auckland's One Tree Hill, 15 years after chainsaw attacks forced the removal of the lone Monterey Pine. A grove of native trees and shrubs will be planted… Read more Audio

A forgery has cost the taxpayer and the country's national heritage collector dearly, after it ignored an art expert's warnings, and went ahead and bought the fake painting. Alexander Turnbull Library… Read more Audio

The Government has unveiled a new plan to tackle childhood obesity, targetting children as young as four. The Prime Minister says being overweight or obese is expected to overtake tobacco as the… Read more Audio

A British teenager romantically linked to the boy who incited an attack on Anzac Day parade in Melbourne has been sentenced on terrorism charges in the UK. Audio

People in Bay of Plenty are being urged to look out for wallabies amid fears that the marsupials are spreading across the region. Audio

It's an action packed weekend ahead for the Maori Party which is keen to win back voters and revamp its image as an enduring voice for Maori; Rangatahi Maori in Auckland are confused about how reforms… Read more Audio

After talking it up for years, the National-led Government was finally able to announce this week that it had got the books back into surplus. Our political reporter, Chris Bramwell, looks at the… Read more Audio

Beneficiaries and people on low incomes are being hit hard by rising rents and increasing fresh food costs. Audio

Ewen MacDonald, the man acquitted of killing Feilding farmer, Scott Guy, has been granted parole and will be released from jail next month. Audio

Australia's new prime minister arrives in New Zealand shortly for a first-up meeting with John Key under the shadow of mass deportations and detentions across the Tasman. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio