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6:11 PM.Taranaki retailers say the downturn in the dairy maket is starting to bite, with sales down by 10-20%. Farmers are cutting back now that the forecast payout for the season has dropped to $3.85 a kilo… Read more Audio

6:05 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:55 PM.A nurses conference has heard how the pay gap suffered by Maori nurses is forcing them to take on second jobs to make ends meet. The Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference was held over the weekend as… Read more Audio

5:52 PM.The annual Anzac rugby league Test between the Kiwis and Kangaroos will be dropped from 2018 as part of a new NRL.television deal. The news has come as a complete surprise to New Zealand Rugby League.

5:45 PM.Leaky building legal action has been launched in the High Court against big building manufacturer, James Hardie. Others are being invited to join the class action along with plaintiffs Tracey Cridge… Read more Audio

5:42 PM.Council workers in Rotorua have spent the day trying to cap a geothermal bore that suddenly erupted behind shops in the centre of town. Steam shot up into the air yesterday, blowing cobble stones and… Read more Audio

5:38 PM.The SPCA says a horse was left with severe gum disease so excruciating it eventually starved to death. Anne Power has appealed her conviction of recklessly ill-treating the horse called Pip back in… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:28 PM.An Australian father who's sick of MPs using tax payer money to go on holidays and travel in helicopters is asking politicians to fork out for his own family holiday to Uluru. Steve Callaghan set up a… Read more Audio

5:24 PM.A man has died while heli-skiing in an avalanche south of Queenstown. Audio

5:20 PM.A rubbish collector has been killed and his driver injured when their truck overturned on a steep road at Birkenhead in Auckland. The driver was trapped inside the cab when the truck tipped over in… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.There are signs of a growing number of debt-pressured dairy farmers weighing up the market in case they choose to sell. And pressure is being felt elsewhere such as on grain prices, from milk prices… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.The Dunedin city council is reassuring ratepayers it has no more big lurking scandals to reveal despite the discovery of five new fraud and theft cases. The cases follow the council's Citifleet… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.A drug addict hooked on opiates who asked her doctor for an experimental treatment she'd read about, ended up dead just days later. The 45 year old woman was given 6 doses of the psycho-active… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Drug addict dies after being given experimental drug; Dunedin Mayor fronts up on council fraud cases; Farmers call on real estate agents with eye on selling up; and Australian dad asks MPs to pay for… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.The Labour party says a new partnership forged by Iwi and Local Government is an important step for Maori aspirations to get involved in local development; The representative body for Maori union… Read more Audio

6:35 PM.New Zealand First has held its first annual conference since last year's general election, and its leader Winston Peter's win in the Northland by-election in March. Audio

6:25 PM.The Silver Ferns are about to get their Netball World Cup campaign underway, against Barbadoes in Sydney. Audio

6:23 PM.Dale Ewers is the Chief Executive of Moutere Logging and D.C Equipment which specialises in servicing and repairing forestry equipment. Audio

6:17 PM.Fonterra has cut what it expects to pay dairy farmers to $3.85, a dollar fifty below the cost of production. Audio

6:12 PM.A convicted child rapist who removed his GPS bracelet has been caught after trying to flee when spotted in Lower Hutt. Audio

6:07 PM.An update from the team at Radio NZ Sport. Audio

5:52 PM.Dairy farmers across the country are facing an even gloomier season after Fonterra dramatically cut its milk forecast payout to 3 dollars 85. Audio

5:50 PM.Robot cranes will be brought into Ports of Auckland at the cost of 50 out of 280 stevedore jobs. Audio

5:45 PM.Northland College, where classrooms were so bad police asked to train there as it resembled a ghetto, is getting a 14 million dollar refit. Audio