Checkpoint

The Auckland Regional Council admits that time is running out to resolve a stand-off with the Government over how to develop Queens Whard for next year's Rugby World Cup. Audio

The Queen's made her first address to the United Nations in more than half a century where she stressed the importance of international co-operation. Audio

Work will begin by Christmas on more than 17 hundred kilometres of new cycle tracks. Audio

The police have named a man wanted in connection with a South Auckland homicide investigation. Audio

New car sales are nearly 30 per cent higher than this time last year - when they hit their lowest levels in 30 years. Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio

An inquest into the death of an Australian skier in the South Island has been told there needs to be national standards for backcountry heliskiing companies. Audio

The anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune has been given a suspended two-year prison term in Japan. Audio

The Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott says the Government's proposal to set up a regional processing centre in East Timor is a political fix that'll never work. Audio

An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio

Parliament has been taken over by the next generation. Audio

New Zealand's largest company is objecting to what it sees as an unending requirement to sell its own milk, cheaply, to companies that later compete against it in the marketplace. Audio