Checkpoint

Some Taranaki Whanui iwi members are concerned that an iwi employee is handling votes on a controversial proposal to sell land at Shelly Bay in Wellington. Audio

Businesses are bracing themselves for a different kind of trickle down effect from the Trans-Pacific Partnership - disruption in the heart of Auckland's CBD. Audio

The TPP signing is a couple of days away, and security preparations are now taking place at the venue, Sky City in Auckland. Audio

Worksafe New Zealand says prosecuting farmers would not be a productive way of improving safety in the agricultural sector. Audio

A woman whose job was given to someone else while she received cancer treatment has lost her case for unfair dismissal, and must pay 3-thousand dollars to her former company. Audio

An animal protection group says money raised by an American trophy hunting club auctioning off New Zealand hunts will be used to kill endangered and vulnerable species. Audio

This afternoon representatives from the Compass Group have met with staff from the Southern DHB to discuss concerns about the quality of the food it is providing to meals on wheels clients in Dunedin… Read more Audio

Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark, is at the heart of a new Australian political scrap. Audio

In the small Northland town of Kaeo, there's something in the water. Audio

Turning to business news now with Nona Pelletier and our biggest construction company Fletcher Building is buying the roading and maintenance firm Higgins Group for 315 million dollars. Audio

RNZ's political editor, Jane Patterson, who's at what was meant to be Donald Trump's victory party, at the Sheraton Hotel, West Des Moines. Audio

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has beaten billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa's Republican presidential nominating contest Audio