Checkpoint

Queensland police have started searching for traces of blood at the Gold Coast home of a New Zealand woman believed to have been killed six years ago. Audio

New Zealand has its Wayne Barnes hate club and the South Africans vilify Bryce Lawrence for game-changing Rugby World Cup calls. Add to that Scotland, with fans livid at referee Craig Joubert for the… Read more Audio

Mechanical problems and bad weather have stopped searchers from investigating a sunken boat off the Canterbury coast, thought to be the FV Jubliee. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

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