Checkpoint

Malaysia and Indonesia's huge palm oil industry is accused of being run with what amounts to slave labour. Audio

A survey of businesses in Wellington shows the city's commercial sector came off relatively lightly from the region's severe earthquake on 21 July, despite one business estimating its damage at more… Read more Audio

Eight years ago Otaki midcourter Katarina Cooper was on the verge of an international netball career, but only now is she about to make her Silver Ferns debut. Audio

The drug-buying agency Pharmac has fended off accusations of penny pinching on medicine, at one of a series of community meetings today. Audio

The Christchurch Police are calling in outside help to crack a ring they suspect of linking car thieves and scrap metal dealers to export stolen parts. Audio

The head of Federated Farmers has apologised to Chinese consumers for Fonterra's botulism scare. Audio

The police are calling for a popular social media site to be shut down over cyber bullying. Audio

A court's been warned a woman who killed her new born baby and buried him in her backyard four days later is a high risk to any future children she may have. Audio

Hundreds of Bay of Plenty whanau have marched to the Kohanga Reo National Trust National headquarters in protest at the departure of the movement's chief executive, Titoki Black; A justice lobby group… Read more Audio

The global mining giant Rio Tinto has given up trying to sell its majority stake in the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Audio

Students at Palmerston North Girls' High School have been caught up in the Fonterra contamination scare - using some of the potentially tainted whey protein in April in a science experiment. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio