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6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:28 PM.The Auckland-based Earthwise Group has won the accountancy firm Deloitte's Fast 50 award this year. Audio

6:19 PM.A finance professor says Chorus might be breaching the conditions of its bank loans but that doesn't mean it's facing bankruptcy or that the multi-billion dollar Ultra Fast Broadband project is at… Read more Audio

6:12 PM.The Coordinator of the Rape Crisis National Collective, Georgia Knowles is with us. Audio

6:08 PM.The Police Minister, Anne Tolley, has been forced to defend the force in Parliament today after she called in independent investigators over the case of young Auckland men boasting online about sex… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.The Department of Conservation will spend more than 100-thousand-dollars on eradicating mice on Maud Island to protect endangered species. Audio

5:52 PM.An initial show of unity between the Christchurch City Council and the government is cracking. Audio

5:49 PM.The Government's lifted some of the barriers blocking Maori from building whare on ancestral land; The Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has reserved its decision on a case involving… Read more Audio

5:45 PM.Wasps are wreaking havoc on native forests, birds and insects. Audio

5:41 PM.The Police Commissioner was called in by the Police Minister for an urgent meeting this morning. Audio

5:37 PM.The Police Minister has brought in independent investigators over the group of Auckland teenagers boasting online about sex with drunk girls, despite the Police Commissioner's assurances. Audio

5:34 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:25 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:22 PM.Parliament is considering adopting a set of privacy principles to help protect MPs and journalists from prying eyes. Audio

5:19 PM.An independent review will be done on Chorus's financial position and whether its contract to roll out Ultra Fast Broadband is under threat from a new pricing regime. Audio

5:15 PM.Almost 500 visa applications have had to be reassessed in India, after the Ombudsman found Immigration New Zealand had wrongly stopped husbands and wives of Indians coming here to work or study. Audio

5:08 PM.The Police Minister has been forced in an unprecedented move to call in independent investigators over the group of Auckland teenagers boasting online about sex with drunk girls. Audio

5:00 PM.The Police Minister is forced to call in the IPCA over the teen rape case. Immigration must reassess 470 visa applications and Government to get independent assessment on Chorus. Audio

6:52 PM.New Yorkers have chosen a new mayor to replace long-serving incumbent Michael Bloomberg. Audio

6:50 PM.The Green Party MP Jan Logie and Australian Greens senator Lee Rhiannon are travelling to Sri Lanka this week, for what they call a fact finding mission in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Heads of… Read more Audio

6:45 PM.The body that keeps lawyers in line has started hearing a case against the prominent Maori lawyer, Donna Hall; No jobs will be lost as part of changes being made to Te Puni Kokiri; The Maori Party… Read more Audio

6:40 PM.After a ten year long investigation a once mighty US hedge fund has become the first big Wall Street company in a generation to confess to criminal conduct. Audio

6:35 PM.One of the three interislander ferries, the Aratere, won't carry carry passengers again till at least Christmas after a propeller fell off in Cook Strait. Audio

6:32 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:25 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio