Checkpoint

A sub tribe's legal claim to a riverbed has today gone to the heart of one of its arguments - that the Crown had a duty to tell tangata whenua what they were buying; A group representing most Maori… Read more Audio

A new agreement by farmers to try to clean up waterways is already drawing fire for lacking teeth to stop dirty dairying. Audio

The Ministry for Primary Industries is satisfied with the sentence handed down to a West Coast dairy farmer accused of breaking the tails of 230 cows, despite an earlier case earning two years jail… Read more Audio

Iwi from across the country have descended on Rotorua for the biennial Kapa Haka championships, Te Matatini. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

A secretive branch of the Chinese military has been accused of being behind repeated cyber attacks aimed at American businesses. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

The second huge public private road project in Queensland to collapse in two years has triggered claims of a fiasco costing shareholders dearly. Audio

An inquest has heard that police didn't follow their rules to track down a 13-year-old boy who ran away from Child Youth and Family care and died. Audio

Beneficiaries are once in again in the Government's sights, with changes that will include a new offence for the partners of beneficiaries convicted of fraud. Audio

The agency in charge of keeping performance-enhancing drugs out of sport fears their use is spreading into schools and it might have to start testing school students competing at the top levels. Audio

The parties in the long-running Auckland ports industrial dispute are heading into discussions this evening, with a possible end in sight. Audio