Checkpoint

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

Workers on foreign-owned fishing boats contracted by New Zealand companies are being forced to sign away their rights to complain about conditions. Audio

The Corrections Department has laid the blame on the private company Serco, for teenagers held at Mt Eden Prison, being locked up for 23 hours a day. Audio

A Waikato businessman's been fined more than 100 thousand dollars for obstructing an investigation into a big blow-up slide that collapsed with children on it. Audio

Two suspects believed responsible for a shooting spree at a social services center in California, that's left 14 people dead, have themselves been killed by police. Audio

Five teenage boys with links to Opotiki College have appeared in a packed courthouse charged with sex offences against underage girls. Audio

The latest investigation into so-called Roastbusters case has found social workers initially took complaints of rape seriously but then decided the sex was consensual. Audio

The latest investigation into the so-called Roastbusters case has found social workers initially took complaints of rape seriously but then decided the sex was consensual. And Five teenage boys with… Read more Audio

Parliament's Privileges Committee meets to consider three questions of privilege, two of them concerning reflections on the Speaker, David Carter, by Labour leader Andrew Little and his chief whip… Read more Audio

Oh, what to wear? The idea for an app to help you with picking an outfit has just won an Auckland entrepreneur a crack at a worldwide competition run by Google. Audio

New Zealanders have been ranked as the worlds third most generous people, but new reasearch shows donations by individuals are declining. Audio

China is being blamed for a major cyber attack on computers at the Bureau of Meteorology, which has compromised sensitive systems across the Federal Government. Audio