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5:27 PM.The police are going to court in the hope of getting back files that have revealed the names of informants and undercover officers to the accused in a big South Island cannabis case. Audio

5:24 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:18 PM.The Prime Minister has been forced to back down over his a claim that SkyCity Entertainment had reached a deal to buy land off TVNZ in Auckland. Audio

5:15 PM.The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union's Assistant National Secretary responsible for Mining and Energy, Ged O'Connell, is with us. Audio

5:07 PM.The country's biggest coal miner is in upheaval, entering urgent talks with its bankers over its debt crisis and looking at restructuring again though it cut hundreds of jobs just recently. Audio

5:00 PM.Solid Energy is in urgent talks with its bankers. The Prime Minister is forced to back down over a Sky City convention centre claim and a large scrub fire in Wellington is being treated as suspicious.

6:55 PM.A Wellington entrepreneur has assembled representatives from IBM, Intel, and leading universities to try to crack what he calls a computing dilemma. Audio

6:46 PM.A sub tribe's legal claim to a riverbed has today gone to the heart of one of its arguments - that the Crown had a duty to tell tangata whenua what they were buying; A group representing most Maori… Read more Audio

6:43 PM.A new agreement by farmers to try to clean up waterways is already drawing fire for lacking teeth to stop dirty dairying. Audio

6:40 PM.The Ministry for Primary Industries is satisfied with the sentence handed down to a West Coast dairy farmer accused of breaking the tails of 230 cows, despite an earlier case earning two years jail… Read more Audio

6:36 PM.Iwi from across the country have descended on Rotorua for the biennial Kapa Haka championships, Te Matatini. Audio

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

6:24 PM.A secretive branch of the Chinese military has been accused of being behind repeated cyber attacks aimed at American businesses. Audio

6:21 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

6:17 PM.The second huge public private road project in Queensland to collapse in two years has triggered claims of a fiasco costing shareholders dearly. Audio

6:12 PM.An inquest has heard that police didn't follow their rules to track down a 13-year-old boy who ran away from Child Youth and Family care and died. Audio

6:08 PM.Beneficiaries are once in again in the Government's sights, with changes that will include a new offence for the partners of beneficiaries convicted of fraud. Audio

5:55 PM.The agency in charge of keeping performance-enhancing drugs out of sport fears their use is spreading into schools and it might have to start testing school students competing at the top levels. Audio

5:53 PM.The parties in the long-running Auckland ports industrial dispute are heading into discussions this evening, with a possible end in sight. Audio

5:50 PM.A group representing most Maori language medium schools is backing a suggestion to build a third kura kaupapa in Christchurch; A sub tribe's legal claim to a riverbed has today gone to the heart of… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.The Children's Commissioner is slating the Government's proposed charter schools as a harsh experiment to run on children. Audio

5:41 PM.New evidence shows parents at one Christchurch school opposed a merger with a poorer school because of fears about the behaviour of that school's children. Audio

5:38 PM.The anti whaling organisation Sea Shepherd says two of its ships have been rammed by Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. Audio

5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:27 PM.Police in Whangarei are looking for a group of men who have been impersonating plain clothes officers and pulling over drivers to look for alcohol. Audio