Checkpoint

A Hamilton accountant has been sent to jail for stealing more than four million dollars from family trusts. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

The Destiny Church's co founder has partially won her court case, forcing the Maori Women's Welfare League to let her run for President. The High Court has ruled the league acted unlawfully leaving… Read more Audio

What's being billed as the largest phone scam ever reported in New Zealand could be costing the country ten million dollars. Audio

A relative of the man shot dead by police in Taranaki last weekend called it murder as he was taken for burial. Anthony Ratahi had taken his former girlfriend hostage with a handgun in the Headlands… Read more Audio

The chief executive of the Pike River coal company has come under intense questioning about how miners would get out of the Pike mine in an emergency. Audio

New papers show Treasury officials have accepted more than 200 gifts in the past year mostly from the major banks. Audio

Treasury staffers accept 200-plus gifts, The latest from the Pike River Royal Commission, Key to push Trans Pacific trade deal in Washington, Relative of man shot by police calls it murder, Global… Read more Audio

A Ngati Porou leader says the ACT Party leader is trying to buy Maori votes by comparing his party's values to those of the late Sir Apirana Ngata. The Rongowhakaata iwi says the main focus of their… Read more Audio

Motorbike riders are being encouraged to dob in truck drivers who dump animal waste on the roads. Audio

Research into detecting cancer in urine has received more than 800 thousand dollars in the latest round of major health science funding. Audio

A former Fijian army colonel Tevita Mara believes he would be detained and tortured if he went back to Fiji. Audio