Mary Wilson
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 13 February 2014
Winston Peters accuses John Key of using Government spies to keep tabs on him. The Commerce Commission will investigate supermarket blackmail allegations and controversial rappers banned from… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 12 February 2014
A claim in Parliament that an Australian owned supermarket chain is blackmailing NZ businesses. Genesis Energy's profit plummets ahead of its partial sale and it's supersized and its coming to the… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 11 February 2014
Another safety breach onboard an interisland ferry. Evidence Mellory Manning tried to avoid a Mongrel Mob tax and 3 suspicious packages, likely to be cocaine, seized at a Lyttleton Port depot. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 10 February 2014
Passports of New Zealanders wanting to go to fight alongside rebel forces in Syria are cancelled. Evidence, Mellory Manning was killed as part of a Mongrel Mob initiation rite and Schapelle Corby is… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 7 February 2014
Australia opens student loans to young New Zealanders; PMs meet in Sydney; Len Brown to pay $40,000 following affair; Auckland Councillor Dick Quax discusses Mayor's contribution; Wedding marquee… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 5 February 2014
The failings of midwife and Waikato Hospital which led to the death of a baby. Rae Portman's killer is jailed for at least 21 years and school students can be breathalysed and tested for drugs. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 4 February 2014
The Governor General says he wasn't jostled at Waitangi. NZ bends to US demands for private information on Americans living here and Hawkes Bays' new multi million dollar museum falls short. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 3 February 2014
Inspectors criticise safety failings at Lyttelton Port. Rhys Darby, on working with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Australian Govt to investigate whaling collision. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 23 December 2013
Some Auckland pensioners fear being kicked out of their state flats to make way for developers. Stev Williams describes the shock dumping of Lydia Ko's coach, as ill-timed and unethical and raising… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 17 December 2013
An extra billion dollars in Govermment spending and the lion share goes to health and education. The police officer who turned smuggler to help prisoners deal with the new smoking ban and banks to… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 16 December 2013
The next three Avatar movies will be made in New Zealand after the Government changes its mind. A woman, not properly cared for in a geriatric hospital, dies from blood poisoning and Auckland mayor… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 12 December 2013
A Pike River prosecution collapses and a half million dollar inquiry fails to name names. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 11 December 2013
Another government IT project is frozen short of its goal. The coroner's findings on a fatal tiger attack and a woman who has a baby with a teenager is sent to jail. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 10 December 2013
The Reserve bank lifts lending restrictions on new houses. Fears the Government may weaken the Commerce Commission's powers and further evidence woman asked family to help kill husband. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 9 December 2013
Deep divisions revealed in leaked documents about the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. Nearly two-thirds of the children born into poverty, live in Northland and Thailand's Prime Minister buckles to… Audio
Revered statesman and anti-apartheid campaigner Mandela dies
South Africa's first black president, and legendary anti apartheid campaigner, had been suffering from a lung infection. Audio
Nelson Mandela dies
The 95 year old, known as the father of modern South Africa, died at his home in Johannesburg after a prolonged battle with a lung infection. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 6 December 2013
Nelson Mandela dies; The latest from Johannesburg; Nelson Mandela, apartheid fighter and peacemaker; Government report reveals serious dysfunction at care home; NZ 'as politically risky as Pakistan'… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 5 December 2013
A former Black Cap confirms he's one target of a match-fixing investigation. Claims that a charter school is being set up with portaloos in a paddock and a poisoning trial hears a tense exchange about… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 4 December 2013
John Banks is quitting politics to fight charges in court. Bill English admits assets sales will bring in considerably less money than expected and accused nicknamed "The Black Widow". Audio