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5:50 PM.After a long wait, rules are finally coming in around drones to boost safety and curb snooping, but at the same time opening up the chance to fly them at night. From next week, anyone with a drone… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.A ten year old New Zealand girl has just clinched her third world BMX title at the championships in Belgium. Leila Walker, who's from Cambridge, only took up the sport three and a half years ago. Audio

5:45 PM.A former inmate says it was worse when the jail was run by Corrections and the company Serco has made things better. Martin Lyttelton spent two years on remand there in 2008 and 2009. Serco took over… Read more Audio

5:38 PM.The Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater could face jail time if he is found to be in contempt of court. The businessman Matthew Blomfield is accusing Mr Slater of breaching a confidential Settlement… Read more Audio

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

5:24 PM.A security expert has told an inquest into the death of a security guard that his lack of training may have contributed to his death and he's calling for much strong accountability and policing of the… Read more Audio

5:20 PM.The Reserve Bank has looked past Auckland's red hot housing market cutting the benchmark interest rate to help farmers grappling with plunging dairy prices. Audio

5:15 PM.The Corrections Minister has revealed Serco has been fined $300,000 in the last year for breaching its contract with the Government. Sam Lotu-Iiga met the prison company's bosses today and put them on… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.The High Court's delivered a comprehensive defeat to the Health Ministry, overturning an unfair tendering process that threatened to scupper the Problem Gambling Foundation. Audio

5:08 PM.A company headed by the Kaitaia GP Lance O'Sullivan has won a $30 thousand grant for a pioneering internet health service for children. The grant from the lines company Top Energy, will extend a… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Black eye for Health Ministry in big win for gambling workers; More failings by private prison company are revealed;; Reserve Bank cuts interest rate; Call for stronger policing of security industry -… Read more Audio

6:50 PM.John Key continues to battle Andrew Little & Winston Peters over the flag debate; Foreign property investors an issue in chamber & committee rooms. Audio

6:46 PM.Officials from the Auditor-General's office faced tough questions about its critical report into Whanau Ora at a Social Services Select Committee meeting today; The historian Paul Moon says the kereru… Read more Audio

6:43 PM.A team of doctors at Waikato Hopsital is hoping to predict which day of the week, even which hour, a child will get hurt and what that injury will be. Audio

6:40 PM.The Disability Rights Commissioner is calling for a select committee inquiry into a law governing payments to family carers, saying it is having a chilling effect. Audio

6:35 PM.Documents seized during a US commando raid on an Islamic State compound in Syria have revealed how the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is trying to ensure the terror group survives long term. Audio

6:25 PM.Auckland's Secondary School Rugby Union hopes parents, who were involved in a violent schoolboy rugby brawl, get the message and stop behaving badly on the sidelines. Audio

6:14 PM.A Filipino worker who's only been in the country for just over month says he's fled a Southland dairy farm after being kicked and abused by his employer. Audio

6:12 PM.Customs says international drug syndicates may be trying to inject life back into the methamphetamine market by oversupplying the drug. Audio

6:06 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:55 PM.A government ministry refit at its Wellington head office has blown out - doubling to more than $400 000. Audio

5:50 PM.Officials from the Auditor-General's office have faced tough questions from MPs about the office's critical report on Whanau Ora. Audio

5:49 PM.Tens of millions of dollars in extra insurance payments may be paid to Cantabrians whose homes were damaged beyond repair in the earthquakes. Audio

5:43 PM.The Labour Party leader is calling for the flag referendum to be dumped because of the cost and a lack of public interest. Audio

5:37 PM.An Australian social worker falsely accused off making up stories about asylum seeker abuse and kicked off Nauru is looking at suing Immigration officials. Audio