Checkpoint

The Auckland Council is warning that it is illegal to kill native eels in public places. Audio

An Auckland conservation group is condemning a plan to allow mountain biking on Auckland's protected Rangitoto and Motutapu Islands, calling it fool-hardy and desperate. Audio

There are calls for child abuse laws to be strengthened to protect children left in the care of cooks in methamphetamine labs. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

The Prime Minister and other senior Ministers say they'd be comfortable with Solid Energy's former chief executive appearing before a Parliamentary committee to explain the company's financial demise.

A gunman who caused shoppers to run screaming from a Brisbane mall today has been shot and taken away in an ambulance. Audio

A coroner has blamed the captain of a Korean fishing boat for it sinking off the Otago coast in August 2010 - the captain and five others drowned. Audio

Officials have been approving tens of millions of dollars of research funding by scientists without checking their applications properly. Audio

The Mr Big of methamphetamine ring in the Waikato has been jailed for 12 years and lost more than five million dollars to the crown - the biggest confiscation of criminal assets that's ever been made… Read more Audio

A Pacific Blue pilot who took off in near-darkness from Queenstown has been found guilty of carelessly operating an aircraft and putting its 70 passengers and crew at risk. Audio

Pilot put passengers at risk, More than five million dollars of assets seized from drug kingpin, Captain blamed for Korean fishing boat sinking, Gunman in Brisbane mall, Ministers comfortable with… Read more Audio