Checkpoint

While many countries are looking to hustle up a tariff deal with the Trump administration, China is promising to stand firm. Beijing' commerce ministry said the United States' threat to increase… Read more Audio

A Wellington boys school is banning highly caffeinated energy drinks from next term after a spike in students going to the sick bay after drinking them. A post on the Saint Patrick's College website… Read more Audio

Europe correspondent Diane To spoke to Lisa Owen about a diplomatic row going on between the United Kingdom and Israel, the response to Donald Trump's tariffs across Europe and how scientists in… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

An assault, an arrest and anti-social behaviour by fans has marred Auckland FC's latest A-League football match at Mt Smart Stadium. Police say an Australian national was taken to Middlemore Hospital… Read more Audio

Trump says the falling markets are the medicine needed to fix a problem... Audio

We need to know before it's too late, that's the message from researchers working to find out the long-term health effects of vaping on New Zealand's young people, who are nearly three times more… Read more Audio

Tairawhiti doctors are warning some Gisborne Hospital services are on the brink of collapse and without an influx of doctors in the next four weeks could be forced to shut down. Last week, the head of… Read more Audio

New Zealand's spending on defence is set for a sharp rise - with the government laying out a plan to double it within the next eight years. It's expected to bring the government's investment to more… Read more Audio

A survivor of abuse in state care is worried new drug-driving laws mean he could be banned from taking the wheel due to his use of medicinal cannabis. Toni Jarvis says he uses prescribed products to… Read more Audio

Queenstown has been suffering from growing pains for years but with visitor and resident numbers continuing to swell it's turning into a full-blown belly ache. The Queenstown Lakes population is about… Read more Audio

Firefighters are battling a blaze which erupted at an industrial complex in the Christchurch suburb of Bromley this afternoon. Fire and Emergency was alerted to the fire in Maces Road shortly before… Read more Audio