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6:38 PM.An Australian journalist and his Thai colleague are on trial in Phuket charged with defaming the navy after they quoted a paragraph from an award winning story by Reuters. Audio

6:28 PM.New research shows blue LED lights in refrigerators could help prevent people getting food poisoning. Audio

6:24 PM.The Nelson City Council has been told it will have to spend up to 13-million dollars to save its main civic building. Audio

6:21 PM.It may be the last hometown test match for Richie McCaw and Dan Carter, but neither are showing any signs of getting sentimental. Audio

6:11 PM.Fonterra is cutting 523 jobs and says more could go in the coming months as it pushes ahead with plans to cut costs and make the company more resiliant. Audio

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

5:55 PM.Māori IT experts are warning about a digital divide in New Zealand. The Government is spending two billion dollars on improving broadband internet access throughout New Zealand, but tangata whenua say… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.But now in 2015, five New Zealand classics have been picked as the finalists for the long lost scroll. Audio

5:47 PM.An anti-violence group wants battered woman who kill their abusive partners to be able to argue self defence. Audio

5:45 PM.A judge has expressed frustration about delays in sentencing a woman who faked cancer to illicit thousands of dollars in public donations. Audio

5:36 PM.There've been complaints that poor drainage was partly to blame for last night's flooding in parts of South and West Auckland. Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:24 PM.The husband of a woman who died from listeria contaminated meat she ate in hospital blames the Hawkes Bay District Health Board and wants the Chief Executive Dr Kevin Snee to admit responsiblity. Audio

5:18 PM.In Greece, thousands of angry protesters took to the streets of Athens hurling molotov cocktails at police while inside Parliament politicans also vented their fury over an austerity package one… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.Dairy giant Fonterra has announced it's cutting 523 jobs. Fonterra declined to be interviewed, but an agribusiness analyst, Keith Woodford, is with us. Audio

5:07 PM.Fonterra is cutting 523 jobs as it pushes ahead with restructuring plans to cut costs and make the company more resiliant in an increasingly volitile market. Audio

5:00 PM.Fonterra cuts 523 jobs as the dairy price takes another big hit. MPs in Greece vote to bring in tough new austerity measures and the husband of wife killed by listeria wants hospital to admit… Read more Audio

6:55 PM.Communications throughout the Northern Mariana Islands, or CNMI, continue to be severely affected as a result of damage to the territory's sole fibre optic cable. Audio

6:50 PM.An MP says Maori in Auckland are being kept in the dark about what is being done to solve the city's housing woes; A prominent Maori lawyer says the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement poses a serious… Read more Audio

6:47 PM.A young female kakapo named Ellie has been found dead on Whenua Hou or Codfish Island, bringing the total population of the critically-endangered birds down to 125. Audio

6:44 PM.The country's only working Wurlitzer pipe organ has been left without a home and nowhere to go. Audio

6:42 PM.The Crown has admitted police breached Nicky Hager's right to protect his sources when they searched his home. Audio

6:39 PM.Property investors, accountants, and lawyers say they support the Government's plan to tax gains on some properties but some kinks need ironing out. Audio

6:35 PM.The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment is confident new voluntary guidelines will to protect livestock on oil industry waste farms and ensure food produced on them is safe. Audio

6:27 PM.The future of some New Zealand cricketers competing in the Indian Premier League is under threat, with two teams on the verge of being suspended from the competition. Audio