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5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:33 PM.The government has outlined how it managed conflicts, or potential conflicts of interest, among ministers with projects included in the controversial Fast-Track legislation. If a conflict was… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.The All Whites are one step close to a third Football World Cup. New Zealand were too good for Tahiti this afternoon, picking up a 3-0 win in Vanuatu, sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Lisa Owen.  Audio

5:24 PM.An image of a Swastika was found on the phone of the person who acted as the closest referee for Brenton Tarrant's firearms licence application. The terrorist also sent the person - referred to in… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.The person accused of killing an elderly Wellington woman in January can now be named as her daughter, 53-year-old Julia DeLuney. Helen Gregory, who was 79, was found dead in her Khandallah home after… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.A Wairarapa health centre is heaving with new patients and having to rely on Give a Little, sausage sizzles and sales of donated jam to stay in the black. First Health and Wellness Centre is a nurse… Read more Audio

4:46 PM.The highly transmissable Covid-19 sub-variant, XEC has arrived in New Zealand, with one epidemologist concerned people will die if there's an outbreak of the new strain. This strain is a mix of two… Read more Audio

4:42 PM.North Dunedin students have been busy with bags and bin, cleaning up their neighbourhood in memory of Sophia Crestani. It's been five years since the 19-year-old University of Otago student died at an… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.Almost a thousand muscled and flexible athletes are jumping, flipping, twisting and balancing in Palmerston North this week at the national gymnastics championships. Olympian trampolinists are the… Read more Audio

4:31 PM.Sports reporter Jamie Wall spoke to Lisa Owen about the Black Ferns looking to salvage something from their up and down season tomorrow and how Harper Sandford went viral for his performance at a… Read more Audio

4:26 PM.You might think of the library as one of the last bastions of peace and quiet, a safe cosy space for allcomers. But worryingly, South Otago librarians are reporting an increase in aggression from… Read more Audio

4:18 PM.A group of Auckland pensioners claim Kainga Ora has been a party pooper quashing their regular Friday afternoon drinks. For 15 years the group of Ellerslie tenants at the complex, who age from their… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.In an email, Te Whatu Ora has told some staff they have to take three weeks mandatory leave and it needs to be taken from 23 December to 10 January. That amounts to 11 leave days and four statutory… Read more Audio

5:48 PM.Australia's transport authority said New Zealander Blake Wilson was drunk when he stole a helicopter and fatally crashed it into a hotel, but it's not clear why he did it. The 23 year old flew a… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.Australia correspondent Nick Grimm spoke to Lisa Owen about Australia gaining a new political party and a summit underway in Sydney today, examining the harms caused by social media. Audio

5:37 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report Audio

5:33 PM.Community leader Dave Letele has confirmed his South Auckland foodbank will close for good after Christmas. Mr Letele runs a number of programmes in South and West Auckland through his business… Read more Audio

5:29 PM.Despite it being a year since they were last together, the Kiwi Ferns are looking to maintain their winning momentum ahead of their Pacific Championships defence starting later this month. A… Read more Audio

5:13 PM.Divers from New Zealand and Samoa have been at the sunken HMNZS Manawanui all day working out how to seal three diesel leaks on the underside of the warship. The Manawanui ran aground on the Tafitoala… Read more Audio

5:11 PM.In the past week Israel has issued several new evacution orders for parts of Gaza as it launches new military operations further into the north, according to the UN. That has displaced an estimated… Read more Audio

5:10 PM.Florida is being lashed by Hurricane Milton - with flash flooding, 200 kilometre an hour winds, torrential rain, tornadoes and a devastating storm surge.The monster storm came ashore as a category… Read more Audio

4:52 PM.There are now more te reo Maori speakers than ever before. Data from the 2023 Census shows that more than 200 hundred thousand people - or 4.3 percent of Kiwis - can hold a conversation in te reo… Read more Audio

4:43 PM.A West Auckland GP practice has been forced to defer tax payments and ask for a rent holiday because of a growing number of patients unable to pay.  Earlier this week we brought you the story of… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.A kiwi holidaying in Florida is hunkered down with Hurricane Milton expected to hit the Tampa suburb, where she's stuck in a condo as it makes landfall. Pamela East is staying in a ground floor… Read more Audio

4:27 PM.The underperforming Black Sticks mens and womens squads will put their national contracts on the line during the new Premier Hockey League. The four franchise competition begins next month and 44… Read more Audio