Mary Wilson
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 21 August 2012
How the police, corrections and teachers' council failed to stop a sex offender in the classroom. A six year old boy is hit and killed by a school bus on the West Coast and Winston Peters, on the… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 20 August 2012
The three soldiers killed in Afghanistan were on a mercy mission. Auckland drops Snapper from its 100 million dollar transport ticket and harrowing evidence of a fatal dive on Auckland's Lake Pupuke. Audio
Insight for 19 August 2012 - Paying for Major Roads
It's three years since the Government embarked on the country's most expensive ever road building programme. Audio
Expo Belle Epoque - Salon of the Princesse de Polignac
At the end of a long day visiting the pavilions of Expo Belle Epoque, Charles Aitken takes a break and tells his son Oscar about the night he was a guest in the salon of the Princesse de Polignac. Audio
Evening Business for 27 July 2012
A body representing company directors says the conviction of the National Finance director, Carol Braithwaite, is a reminder that board members are accountable for the documents they sign off. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 26 July 2012
For the first time MPs are being asked to vote for or against gay marriage. John Banks personally collects a cheque from sky city - but the donation is still anonymous and 5 Chinese nationals charged… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 25 July 2012
A ground-breaking coroners' report raises the possibility of fresh charges in the Kahui case. Part of the Rena wreck will remain on the Astrolabe reef and the Christchurch City Council doesn't talk to… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 24 July 2012
An ill -informed crusade - the war of words between the growers and the minister. Claims of corruption at Immigration New Zealand and a farmer is rescued from rising flood waters. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 23 July 2012
Ten rest home nurses fail a 93 year old woman. President Obama meets victims of the Denver shooting spree and a school boy stones a kea. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 19 July 2012
Verdicts in one of the worst finance company frauds. The bag snatcher who killed a woman in a supermarket carpark is found guilty of murder for the second time and DHB says it didn't test hospital… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 18 July 2012
The Iraena Asher inquest is told it's the police who failed her, not those who tried to help. The son of a slain security guard warns whoever killed him to watch out and more jail time for Rod… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 17 July 2012
28 miners are rescued from a Waihi gold mine. Iraena Asher's disappearance from Piha Beach is again under scrutiny and the lowest inflation rate in more than a decade. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 16 July 2012
Road tolls, and more expensive parking are back on the agenda in Auckland. Tougher punishments for bad students, not a softer line and weather records go on trial in the High Court. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 5 July 2012
Foreign affairs minister condemns South Korea's whaling plan, A serial sex offender from Blenheim professes his innocence, Sex offender absconds on false passport,15 injured in icy bus crash… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 4 July 2012
Major biosecurity shortcomings MAY have been responsible for the PSA outbreak. The chief coronor reviews more than two dozen deaths from inhaling gas to get high and a truck-driver is sentenced to… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Tuesday 3 July 2012
Ewen Macdonald is found not guilty of murdering Scott Guy. Two teenagers are critically ill with severe burns after the gas they were huffing exploded and Auckland mops up after a freak storm. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 2 July 2012
The Jury in the Scott Guy murder trial considers its verdict. Evidence alarm bells were raised about a major structural wall at the CTV building before it collapsed and a narrow escape for a… Audio
Evening Business for 29 June 2012
The Financial Markets Authority has raised questions about possible conflicts of interest at the the stock exchange - a worry the NZX's new boss is already trying to tackle. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 29 June 2012
Budget documents show school staffing changes would have cut 1000 jobs;Defence argues the Crown has not;Wait goes on for Port Hills homes still white zoned;Redzone homeowner speaks of relief;Eurozone… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 28 June 2012
Report on Hutt Valley mental health services made public; New agreement between ACC and Minister tabled; Macdonald trial enters its final phases; Stress and overwork blamed for refuge misspending… Audio