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5:47 PM.Africa correspondent Elna Schutz spoke to Lisa Owen about the French president visiting Morrocco, election day in Botswana and British actor Idris Elba planning to shake up the African film industry.

5:36 PM.Barber students at Taranaki's largest tertiary education provider are creating a buzz around the region with a community project offering free haircuts at schools.The students are smashing out… Read more Audio

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

5:31 PM.US Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has warned more than 75,000 supporters at a rally in Washington that her opponent Donald Trump is 'unstable' and 'obsessed with revenge'… Read more Audio

5:23 PM.The Silver Ferns can make history with a win over Australia in Melbourne tonight. New Zealand has never made a clean sweep of netball's Constellation Cup series before, but with three wins from three… Read more Audio

5:21 PM.Health New Zealand is feeling the heat after revelations it spent close to 100-thousand dollars on catering for a finance conference a year ago. It's the second such case revealed by RNZ this month -… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.A staggering 80,000 school students were MIA for more than three weeks of Term 2 this year. That's like waking up one morning and the entire population of Palmerston North city just disappeared. A new… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.'We wanted to do right by survivors,' the words of Minister Erica Stanford in revealing a settlement top up for some Lake Alice abuse survivors. The government today announced that a group of… Read more Audio

4:48 PM.Air New Zealand said sustainable aviation fuel or SAF made locally from waste wood could create hundreds of new regional jobs and help with Aotearoa's fuel resilience and security. The national… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.School leaders say punishing families of truant kids won't fix the reasons why they're bunking off school in record numbers. A new report by the Education Review Office shows close to 80,000 kids were… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.New Zealand's top basketball competitions are expanding to feature two teams from India next year. The Indian Panthers will field a team in the men's NBL and women's Tauihi League from next season… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.Asia correspondent Erin Hale spoke to Lisa Owen on an apparent crackdown on Halloween celebrations in Shanghai, parts of India and Pakistan being covered in a thick layer of toxic smog and Mt Fuji… Read more Audio

4:17 PM.US Democratic Party presidential candidate Kamala Harris has urged the United States to turn the page on drama and division in her final speeches to voters ahead of next week's election. She was… Read more Audio

4:07 PM.An Auckland company has developed what's essentially a debit card that can be loaded with money and given to workers so they can choose what benefits them the most and they can buy them without having… Read more Audio

5:46 PM.To Australia now .. where prime minister Anthony Albanese is embroiled in a controversy over accepting upgrades and free flights from Qantas and being too cosy with the airlines former chief executive… Read more Audio

5:38 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report Audio

5:30 PM.The White Ferns can cap off a successful six weeks of cricket overseas by adding another piece of silverware to their haul. New Zealand face India in the one-day series decider tonight in Ahmedabad… Read more Audio

5:24 PM.A government scheme will allow building professionals to certify their own work rather than relying on independent inspections. "Candy floss and quick wins" is how one advocacy group's describing the… Read more Audio

5:13 PM.A $100,000 reward and possible immunity is on offer for clues leading to the conviction of whoever's responsible for killing Auckland man Arthur Easton almost 40 years ago. The case was re-opened… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.Building profesionals will be able to certify some of their own work under a new government scheme aimed at speeding up construction by cutting red tape. Qualified building professionals like… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.A new survey shows the tax tide could be turning.  An IPSOS survey of 1003 people this month shows 65 percent of those questioned would support a Capital Gains Tax or CGT.  That is tax on profits made… Read more Audio

4:40 PM.Businesses on Auckland's Karangahape Road are fed up with the lack of public toilets on the iconic street, with some having to clean up human waste outside their shop fronts each morning.There used to… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Police are offering a $100,000 reward for information about the killing of Arthur Easton almost forty years ago in Auckland. Mr Easton was stabbed to death in his Papakura home after confronting an… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.RNZ sports reporter Jamie Wall spoke to Lisa Owen about the latest in the controversy in the wash up of the NPC Mascot Race and an update on the All Blacks. Audio

4:25 PM.A campervan park is looking to set up camp on prime real estate in central Christchurch, just 8 minutes walk from the new stadium and about quarter of an hours stroll from the Riverside Market. Its… Read more Audio