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5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:30 PM.The Transport Agency's been given a permit to herd, injure, and kill seals after State Highway One north of Kaikoura was damaged during the earthquake last year. Audio

5:24 PM.The inquiry into the Havelock North water contamination has found the Hawke's Bay Regional Council and Hastings District Council failed to protect public health. Audio

5:20 PM.One hundred and seventy childrens' graves at Manukau Memorial Gardens in South Auckland have been damaged by maintenance workers. Video, Audio

5:14 PM.Is the Hilary Clinton email explanation for James Comey's termination plausible? We asked Stephen Dinan from the Washington Times. Video, Audio

5:14 PM.CNN reporter Shimon Prokupez says he and all of his colleagues had not even the remotest inkling that Donald Trump would fire James Comey. Video, Audio

5:08 PM.The White House says James Comey was fired because he mishandled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, but Mr Comey was in the middle of investigating ties with Russia. Video, Audio

6:15 PM.Solid Energy CEO Tony King says its the right decision not to send personnel up the Pike River drift, and that he's disappointed no one has ever been prosecuted for the deaths of the Pike 29. Video, Audio

6:07 PM.MP for Whanganui, Chester Borrows, has been found not guilty of a charge of careless driving causing injury. Robin Martin reports. Video, Audio

5:55 PM.Cust publican Tommy Dick is promising a ripper of a night when his bar re-opens tonight after being dry for a month. Alcohol is back on the menu - and finger food is on the house. Video, Audio

5:51 PM.Aid agencies are yet to guage the severity of damage caused by cyclone Donna in the northern islands of Vanuatu. New Caledonia is bracing itself as the cyclone barrels towards the island. Video, Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:29 PM.Solid Energy Chief Executive Tony King has spoken for the first time about the safety of the Pike River mine insisting it is still too dangerous for people to go back into it. Video, Audio

5:20 PM.Labour candidate Willie Jackson runs a charter school, yet the party opposes them. So how can a candidate and a party be so divided on the topic? Jane Patterson reports. Audio

5:15 PM.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.  Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.Whanganui MP Chester Borrows has been found not guilty of a charge of careless driving at an incident at an anti-TPP protest last year. Video, Audio