Checkpoint

The man charged with murdering a tax driver in Auckland in January last year will be tried in China next month. Audio

The Labour party says National's move to reduce ACC levies shows it manufactured a crisis to justify its privatisation plans. Audio

Scientists, including three from New Zealand, are getting under the skin of the potato, having cracked the genetic code of the humble spud. Audio

Searchers for a possum hunter who's been missing since Wednesday now say there's little hope of him being found alive. Audio

The principal of Shirley Boys' High School in Christchurch is giving the Government notice he's going to fight to keep the school open. Audio

More on the actions of a police officer who struck and killed a Northland teenager while driving. The Independent Police Conduct Authority found they were imprudent, unreasonable and undesirable but… Read more Audio

The Independent Police Conduct Authority, has found that a Northland police officer who hit and killed a teenager on the road near Kaikohe was not acting unlawfully. Audio

A young Ngati Kahu activist says it doesn't seem right that a police driver who hit and killed a Maori teenager has escaped prosecution; The Mana Party strategist, Matt McCarten, says the Maori Party… Read more Audio

Tests have shown synthetic cannabis is more potent than the real thing and is being sold in an unpredictable cocktail of products. Audio

The Prime Minister John Key doesn't accept the claim in an ACT party advertisement that National is pandering to Maori radicals. Audio

The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the Opposition leader Tony Abbott are both in New South Wales today at the start of what many are calling a very long election campaign. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio