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Topics - The Prime Minister is welcoming more Chinese investment in New Zealand - as long as it's the right type of investment. Insurers have begun imposing excesses of five thousand dollars for… Audio

Auckland house prices to rise by 12% over the next year, and the Council of Trade Unions describes Mighty River Power directors' pay rise "obscene". Audio

Topics - The State Services Commissioner, Iain Rennie, says he didn't expect the Prime Minister to ring an old family friend directly about the country's top spy job. Census day was Tuesday, 5 March… Audio

Topic - Crime rates have dropped to their lowest level for 24 years - but police aren't solving any more of their cases. Instead, they say they're focusing on preventing major crimes, rather than… Audio

Topics - It's D-Day for Red Zone land owners in Christchurch who have less than an hour to accept the Government's offer for their land. Lifeguards say ten Korean fishermen who were stranded on a… Audio

The New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder remains in an induced coma with a fractured skull and a collapsed lung following an assault in Christchurch in the early hours of this morning. The Automobile… Audio

Topics - The Department of Conservation has ruled out any increase in the price of using national parks as a means of increasing revenue. Fonterra has lifted its half year profit, and its forecast… Audio

Topics - 140 jobs at the Department of Conservation will disappear as a result of the latest round of restructuring. A Herald DigiPoll suggests public opposition to same-sex marriage has grown… Audio

Topics - The Mayor of Auckland was hoping to convince Housing Minister Nick Smith to get the ball rolling sooner on his council's plan to solve the city's housing problems. Would you be alarmed to… Audio

The pressure on Christchurch's housing market is expected to ease within the next three years as around thirty thousand sections come on the market. An inquiry is underway after human tissue… Audio

Topics - the new head of the Families Commission has called in auditors after discovering that more than $400,000 was paid to an Australian consultant. The new race relations commissioner Susan Devoy… Audio

Topics - The Greens are warning that New Zealanders with funds in the bank could see their nest eggs disappear in a government move that they're calling a "Cyprus-style solution" to help out failing… Audio

Topics - The Government will pay six million dollars in compensation to schools to go towards meeting the costs of additional work caused by the failures of the Novopay system. The Prime Minister… Audio

Topics - most of the North Island has received a welcome smattering of rain. Some areas got up to 25 millimetres yesterday. Scientists are confident the rare earthquakes in Auckland at the weekend are… Audio

As Auckland Council launches its first district plan - against a backdrop of growing debate about housing and land supply in Auckland - Mayor Len Brown has backed away from his earlier claim that the… Audio

Topics - The first Latin American pope, Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio is a moderate known for his negotiating skills, and for being prepared to challenge powerful interests. The survivor of the RSA… Audio

Topics - The government has stepped in to stop debt collectors chasing overpayments made through the school payroll system, Novopay. A mortician's embalmer who found herself in the position of having… Audio

Topics - The Prime Minister, John Key, says he thinks a bill allowing a holiday when ANZAC and Waitangi days fall on the weekend will become law. A man whose parenting style led his teenage… Audio

Topics - A "specialist" team of 100 staff began work today to combat the backlog of problems with the beleaguered school payroll system. Is it ok to want a dialogue about the future ethnic composition… Audio

Inner-city Auckland traffic was paralysed last night after a motorway crash caused gridlock which the Automobile Association has described as the worst it has ever seen. Yesterday, on The Panel, a… Audio

Topics - An Otago-based group is calling on politicians to "face up" to New Zealand's social, environmental and economic problems, which it says are "too big to ignore". Proposed legislation requiring… Audio

Topics - The Prime Minister has defended the $425,000 payout of former Education Secretary Lesley Longstone after a year's service. Marlborough residents fear people will be put off living in their… Audio

Topics - The Treasury is investigating problems with the website allowing people to pre-register for shares in Mighty River Power. The sale of Sky Network Television shares by the Rupert Murdoch owned… Audio

New Zealand is on the verge of a diabetes epidemic, according to an Otago University study, with one in five adults showing early signs of developing the disease; Hundreds of police have been taken… Audio

Topics - It could be weeks before any significant rain falls in key farming areas. It's being reported today that unpaid child support totals billions of dollars, probably about 3 billion, with… Audio