Checkpoint

Almost two hundred jobs are going from Inland Revenue provincial offices in what the PSA is calling a savage blow for small communities. Audio

200 jobs go from IRD provincial offices, IRD speaks about the losses, Numbers out of work remain stubbornly high, Father of drowned sailor says buck stops with Phil Goff, The latest from the bomb… Read more Audio

Almost 400 families have been evicted from state houses, over the last three years, for lying about their income and more than half of those have been kicked out in the last 12 months. Audio

A kaumatua who helped set up iwi social services around the country says a former Ngapuhi social welfare boss should have been jailed for defrauding a tribe; A Northland principal says her school will… Read more Audio

There were renewed warnings today that the government might need to cut its early childhood subsidies in order to direct more funding to poor and at risk families. Audio

A parliamentary select committee's been told more and more homeless people are having to pay too much to stay for too long in rundown boarding houses. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Rescuing Happy Feet, the emperor penguin that's made international headlines, has been a waste of time and money according to a Wellington biologist. Audio

The Financial Markets Authority says NZX did not breach disclosure rules about the performance of its Australian-based grain exchange. Audio

Locals who live near a major Defence Forces munitions store where security's been compromised are pushing for quick action to make it secure. Audio

The Green Party has come up with a one billion dollar plan to lift one hundred thousand children out of poverty by 2014. Audio

The ASB has become the first of the big trading banks to roll out across-the-board increases in fixed home mortgage rates. Audio