Checkpoint

Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for the Presidency of the United States, after being initially dismissed as having no chance. Audio

WINZ directed desperate families to $400-a-week garages in South Auckland, as well as houses where entire families crowd into a single room, and paid their bond. Audio

We go to Indonesia where the Prime Minister John Key has just landed in Surabaya, the capital of East Java. Our deputy political editor Chris Bramwell is travelling with him and joins us by phone. Audio

138 of New Zealand's future political leaders descended on Parliament today, to take part in the Youth Parliament and get a taste of politics. Audio

In France, the shock and sadness that immediately followed the truck terror attack in Nice seems to have been replaced by anger and frustraton. Rebecca Whitlocke is a New Zealand expat living in Nice.

South Dunedin residents are expected to spend the coming months and even years discussing how to deal with the forecast effects of rising sea levels in their region. Audio

The former Reserve Bank governer, Don Brash, says any solution to make housing more affordable in New Zealand will be politically damaging because prices simply have to fall. Audio

Serco is once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons after a report revealed a sick prisoner had to get his cellmate at Mt Eden Prison to scrub his gangrenous toes with toilet paper. Audio

Calls are growing for Russia to be banned outright from next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero after a damning report detailed widespread state-sponsored doping. Audio