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5:46 PM.There will be blood on the Government's hands if it doesn't immediately provide support to the survivors of state and faith-based care - that's the message from abuse survivor and advocate Ken… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.Africa correspondent Elna Schutz speaks to Lisa Owen about a wild string of events involving a particularly controversial pastor in South Africa, preparations for an important regional summit in… Read more Audio

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

5:33 PM.The pole vaulting trio of Eliza McCartney, Olivia McTaggart and Imogen Ayris will chase Olympic glory, with all three in the Games final. The women's team pursuit are also on track for gold at the… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.The Kaipara District Council has voted to scrap its Maori Ward, at a tense meeting in Mangawhai today. At least 150 Maori ward advocates gathered outside the council building during the extraordinary… Read more Audio

5:13 PM.The Chair of Open Country Dairy, Laurie Margrain told Lisa Owen New Zealand's unreliable energy market is putting investors off, and dampening productivity and the country needs affordable, guaranteed… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.The unemployment queue just got a whole lot longer and it's youth that are literally at the front of the firing line. 33,000 more New Zealanders are jobless compared to this time last year, bringing… Read more Audio

4:47 PM.The council has issued a do-not-drink notice to residents in Tokomaru town today and the waiting game is now on to see what further testing reveals. However, as Jimmy Ellingham reports, not everybody… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.A long-awaited strategy to deal with coastal hazards in Hawke's Bay has finally been released and is calling for urgent action. Many parts of the region's coastline are slipping into the sea, such as… Read more Audio

4:38 PM.While last night's duo canoe effort may not have been our proudest sporting moment - there have been plenty of other highlights, both expected and unexpected, from the Paris Games. Visual journalist… Read more Video, Audio

4:35 PM.New Zealanders looking after disabled family members say the long hours and lack of support is pushing them to the brink. Carers NZ said it amounts to billions of dollars in unpaid labour and said… Read more Audio

4:30 PM.It will go down as one of the most embarassing moments in New Zealand Olympic history. Sports reporter Jonty Dine speaks to Lisa Owen about the kiwi pair Max Brown and Grant Clancy etching themsleves… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.An Auckland college is refusing to apologise to a student it booted out for buying cannabis on school grounds even after the ombudsman ruled the punishment was "unreasonable." In 2022, the St Peter's… Read more Audio

4:16 PM.Asia correspondent Erin Hale speaks to Lisa Owen about weeks of protests over government job quotas in Bangladesh seeing a seismic shift in the country's government, a court ruling invloving… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.New unemployment figures show 33,000 more New Zealanders are job less compared to this time last year, bringing the total to 143,000. Young people aged between 15 and 24 make up almost half of the… Read more Audio

5:31 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:27 PM.New Zealand's most successful Olympian Dame Lisa Carrington begins her Paris campaign tonight - looking to add to her six kayak medals. The five time Olympic gold medallist will line up in the heats… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.The Tertiary Education Minister is rejecting some costly expert advice on what's best for the future of controversial mega polytech Te Pukenga. The government's committed to disestablishing it and… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.The Tangiwai and Karoio pulp and timber mills are owned by Winstone and employ around 300 people, mainly in the Ohakune area. However, the company said its electricty costs have gone up 600% since… Read more Audio

4:48 PM."Unite for Seniors," is a new nationwide campaign backed by the Retirement Village Residents members association, it believes the law favours village operators. Some residents who don't own their… Read more Audio

4:44 PM.International nurses who answered New Zealand's call to come and work here have found themselves spending tens of thousands of dollars getting registered and applying for hundreds of jobs, but they… Read more Audio

4:38 PM.A friend of retired Auckland eye surgeon Philip Polkinghorne has told a court that the doctor behaved unusually in the year leading up to Pauline Hanna's death. It's the second week of the murder… Read more Audio

4:34 PM.Sports reporter Jamie Wall speaks to Lisa Owen about Shaun Johnson announcing his retirement with the Warriors and the most controversial storyline of the Olympics being the women's boxing. Audio

4:25 PM.Have the stock market wobbles sent you scrambling to look at your Kiwisaver balance? Maybe, best just to look away, with investors being warned not to panic. This after US markets closed down this… Read more Audio

4:17 PM.United States correspondent Zach Montellaro speaks to Lisa Owen about Kamala Harris' impending vice presidential pick announcement, how America's stock market has fared amid plunges in global stocks… Read more Audio