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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

5:43 PM.The police are still searching for a man accused of threatening a family with a gun in South Auckland this morning. Audio

5:40 PM.People in Upper Hutt are furious police took so long to break into the home of a convicted child rapist who'd removed his GPS bracelet. Audio

5:27 PM.Donald Trump has drawn boos at a testy first Republican presidential debate in Cleveland this afternoon. Audio

5:25 PM.The country's largest polytechnic, Unitec, wants to cut 124 jobs - and up to 300 more could be shed over the next three years. Audio

5:20 PM.Fonterra has this afternoon slashed its forecast milk payout to 3 dollars 85, down from $5.25. Audio

5:16 PM.Corrections runs the monitoring of ex prisoners - and the Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga says the Livingstone situation is simply not good enough. Audio

5:07 PM.A child rapist who removed his GPS bracelet was caught after trying to break a police cordon in Lower Hutt when someone spotted him. Audio

5:00 PM.Child rapist caught after trying to flee police;Corrections on delay finding out Livingstone fled;Fonterra slashes forecast milk payout to under $4;NZ's largest polytech shedding more than 100… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.The Taranaki town of Opunake is starting to clean up after incessant overnight rain left some thirty houses flooded, with at least three people having to be evacuated. Audio

6:51 PM.The founder of a group for queer Māori, or takatāpui, says the community is still running into discrimination two years on from marriage equality; Ngāti Kahungunu says the Government is selling its… Read more Audio

6:38 PM.West African crime syndicates are duping dozens of vulnerable Australians to courier drugs through countries that have the death penalty for trafficking. Audio

6:36 PM.The Prime Minister says the forthcoming closure of the last of New Zealand's large-scale coal-fired power stations is unsurprising in light of Government policy on climate change. Audio

6:26 PM.A woman who was born with cyctic fibrosis has started breathing on her own for the first time since receiving a double-lung transplant last Wednesday. Audio

6:15 PM.Gotingco family friend Alan Wharerau read a victim impact statement on behalf of Blessie Gotingco's husband. Audio

6:12 PM.The police have admitted it took them hours and several visits to a child rapist's home to find he had removed his GPS bracelet and fled. Audio

6:08 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:58 PM.The partner of a gang members' son has described the blood gushing from his head as she sat with him, screaming, in his final moments. Audio

5:55 PM.Hunters are up in arms about sudden changes to the country's main gun safety programme. Audio

5:53 PM.The overall health of the Maori language is about to be put under the microscope. The Māori Language Commission has contracted the New Zealand Council for Educational Research to carry out a major… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.The Education Review Office says only half of early childhood education centres are doing a good job with children under the age of three. Audio