Zac Fleming

Forty people will voluntarily spend 40 hours in a tiny cage, with nothing to do, eating nothing but cereal, to bring attention to factory farming. Video, Audio

Auckland Council spends around $150,000 a year catering lunches for its meetings. We sent Zac Fleming down to Auckland's Town Hall to take a look. Video, Audio

A rodeo cowboy who was caught abusing animals earlier this year has escaped formal punishment - a decision animal welfare activists say is ludicrous. Video, Audio

The Oratia community is delighted after Auckland's water authority Watercare decided against uprooting dozens of families in the Auckland suburb to make way for a new water treatment plant. Video, Audio

Riverstone Chardonnay was sold for just $1 at Countdown in the Auckland suburb of Northcote on Friday. The supermarket says it was a mistake, but alcohol harm experts say it shows supermarkets can't… Audio

The Health Minister, Autism NZ and NZ Medical Association back Dr Lance O'Sullivan, who stormed on stage of controversial film "Vaxxed" in Kaitaia on Monday night. Video, Audio

Checkpoint reporter Zac Fleming heads along to the controversial documentary Vaxxed to talk to people opposed to vaccination, before putting their claims to an immunologist.  Video, Audio

A family is demanding answers after their elderly father was denied an ambulance and waited hours for treatment for a bone-deep gash on his face. Video, Audio

The Ministry of Education identified that religious instruction in state schools may be discriminatory more than 16 years ago, but chose to take no action. Video, Audio

A dairy worker was put in hospital last night after four masked men with machetes stormed into the store in Mangere. Auckland dairy owners say such attacks are now happening daily. Video, Audio

Bill English says he imagines both Mr King and the Ministry of Health struggled with King's position on the Suicide Prevention External Advisory Panel. Audio

With a retail price of over $20 a packet, there's a growing black market in stolen cigarettes. Footage provided to Checkpoint shows the people stealing them work very fast, and sometimes brutally… Video, Audio

Armed robberies are so common in some parts of Auckland that just minutes after one shop owner talked to Checkpoint reporter Zac Fleming about it, he was robbed again.  Video, Audio

More than 600 state schools teach Christianity, but not other religions. Zac Fleming investigates what schools offer religious education and what is taught. Audio

Surgeons at Dunedin Hospital are recommending patients ask family members to bring in food if they don't like the provided meals. Audio

The government has rejected a recommendation by its own health select committee and health officials to ban smoking in cars where children aged under 18 are passengers. Audio

Grinding Gear Games, which makes Path of Exile, employs more than 100 full time staff, and soon PoE will go multi-platform and be playable on Xbox. Video, Audio

A nationwide shortage of vegetables may last for several months after crops were destroyed in recent flooding. Video, Audio