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Middlemore guards on escort duty over assualt fears
Security guards at Middlemore hospital are escorting staff and visitors to their cars more than 4000 times a month as safety fears continue.
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Full moon attacks: Five dogs impounded after 143 sheep killed
44 minutes agoCommunity patrols will be set up for the next full moon in July after a spate of attacks in Hastings in recent weeks.
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'Mud flying 10 metres into the air': Dealing with a backyard crater
37 minutes agoCheckpoint - A Rotorua woman says she thought it was an earthquake when a massive bubbling mud pool appeared in her Whakarewarewa backyard today. Audio
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'One of Antarctica's carnivores on our doorstep'
about 1 hour agoPeople have been warned not to startle a leopard seal lying on the southern end of Gisborne's Wainui beach.
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Scammers targeting ANZ customers via email
5:41 pm todayANZ is warning people to ignore scam emails asking them to provide their banking details.
Chemical spill sparks evacuation at Dunedin water treatment plant
E-scooter death was medical event - police
Politics
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Crunch time as Parliament votes on euthanasia bill today
10:00 am todayThe bill that would give the terminally ill the right to choose to die faces a make-or-break vote in Parliament today. Video, Audio
Public Services to receive biggest change in 30 years
New report calls for four-year term, more MPs in Parliament
Pacific
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USP Pro Chancellor says no need to recuse
The Pro Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific says there's no reason for him to recuse himself while there's an investigation going on into abuse of power allegations.
Vanuatu founder rails against passport sales
Sea turtle nesting site disturbed on Saipan
Sport
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'It's going to be a great challenge' - Silver Ferns ready for upcoming series
1:32 pm todaySilver Ferns coach Noeline Taurua says their matches in Auckland this week are ideal preparation for next month's Netball World Cup.
Warriors would add Lodge
Super Rugby season review: The Highlanders
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Chronic fatigue syndrome blood test offers new hope
Sufferers of a debilitating, mysterious and often misdiagnosed disease, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), may have something they've been seeking for decades - a diagnostic test. Audio
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'Does it get chucked back in the sea or does it feed a family?'
A Porirua gang member is putting unwanted fish heads and frames to good use by delivering them to hungry families in his community.
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NZ Hong Kong expats furious over extradition law
Voices - The Hong Kong community in New Zealand say they are furious over the violence and push by the government back home for a controversial extradition law with China. Audio
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Insight: Imprisoned by meth
RNZ's Insight won best documentary/factual talk feature at the 2019 New Zealand Radio Awards for this story by Teresa Cowie who went inside prison to investigate New Zealand's meth epidemic. Video, Audio
RNZ Music
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Three songs that resonate
Why do some songs mean so much to us, regardless of age? Music reviewer and academic Graeme Downes touches on 'Both Sides Now', by Joni Mitchell, 'What's Going On' by Marvin Gaye and Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good'. Video, Audio
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Listen: Nashville Babylon
Mark Rogers previews live shows from Kris Kristofferson and Justin Townes Earle, spins a track from Springsteen's new album, plays a birthday tune for Mick Fleetwood and there's a Kiwi classic courtesy of Eb & Sparrow. Audio
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Award-winning recording of Neil Finn and the APO
RNZ's recording of Neil Finn and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra has won Gold at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. Listen to the 'Best Live Sound' winner here. Video, Audio
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Thousands perform haka for Alien Weaponry in Denmark
Thousands of Danish metal fans performed the haka for Kiwi band Alien Weaponry over the weekend at the Copenhell festival. Video, Audio
In Depth
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Inside the anti-5G movement
Scientists say that 5G is safe, but a small, vocal group of people insist it causes cancer. Susan Strongman speaks to two of the rollout's most rowdy opponents.
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The Pacific Ballot - Ticket to a new life
Insight: Thousands of Pacific Islanders enter the annual visa lotteries and are ready to wrench themselves from home for a NZ residence visa. But is the better…
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Historic rugby club refuses to leave company-owned grounds
Dunedin fertiliser company Ravensdown wants Harbour Rugby Club to look for new grounds, but after 130 years of rugby at Moller Park, the club is refusing to…
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Kim Dotcom and the seven-year itch
Seven years on from his arrest, the extradition battle between Kim Dotcom and the US reached NZ's Supreme Court this week. Kate Newton went to court to find out… Video
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Why Christians disagree over the Israel Folau saga
Opinion: For many Christians, Folau has become a talisman for religious freedom. But not all Christians see it that way, writes Geoff Thompson for The…
New bank scheme serves as rebuke to RBNZ's decades old approach
Analysis - The deposit insurance scheme may allow RBNZ to step back from some of its more extreme proposals, but it is also something of a rebuke to its…
Chernobyl and the horror of real life
Review: HBO's Chernobyl depicts events so terrible and unreal they don't need any embellishment. The result is tense, gripping and essential viewing, Francis…
Week in politics: Helping farmers and buying back guns
Analysis: Winston Peters positions New Zealand First as the farmers' champion, the cost of the gun buy-back is revealed and there's a row over electoral law…