Checkpoint

The pay gap for men and women is the biggest it's been in six years. Audio

The mother of a 23 year old man deported from Australia has written to John Key pleading for his intervention. Audio

The Prime Minister has slammed the United Nations' Security Council for not doing its job properly during his address to world leaders in New York today. Audio

A young New Zealand basketballer, Jaylen Gerrand, fled for his life in a mass shooting at a US college today, but then regathered himself to check his team-mates were safe. Audio

A young NZ basketballer caught up up in the latest mass shooting in the US. A forestry company ordered to pay $130,000 after death of a worker and John Key slams the UN Security Council. Audio

The National Maori Midwives Organisation says expecting wahine around the country are suffering due to a shortage of Maori midwives to care for them; The government's creation of a sanctuary covering… Read more Audio

Oxfam has issued a dire warning about risks to lives and livelihoods across the Pacific from the Super El Nino which has already brought drought and severe heat to Papua New Guinea. Audio

A retired Australian admiral is warning that his country's Defence Force is failing to deal with the security threats and other consequences of climate change. Audio

Gains on property sales are being targeted from today with the new bright-line test coming into force. Audio

The Governor of Oklahoma has halted the execution of a death row inmate at the last minute, after realising the state had taken delivery of the wrong kind of drugs for his killing. Audio

When retired manufacturing engineer Peter Aitchison goes to look out over Wellington harbour from his home, he sees a four-metre-high fence instead. Audio

The Human Rights Foundation says a new law imposing parole on offenders deported back to New Zealand from Australia, must not pile extra punishment on people who've already served their time. Audio