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5:21 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:17 PM.The Prime Minister has assured Parliament that all bidders for the international convention centre in Auckland were given the same information as SkyCity Entertainment. Audio

5:13 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

5:07 PM.The Government says it's cracking down on the partners of beneficiary fraudsters who could be fined or jailed for 12 months and have assets seized. Audio

5:00 PM.Government cracks down on benefit fraudsters' partners. Drug agency ponders school sport. PM assures Parliament all bidders treated the same. Police hunt for imposters. Audio

6:53 PM.Cost could be the major barrier to including boys as well as girls in a vaccination programme to prevent cervical cancer. Audio

6:49 PM.The Supreme Court has heard the Crown had a duty to fully explain what they were doing when they bought land and a riverbed from a hapu at the end of the nineteenth century; Official figures show… Read more Audio

6:44 PM.The head of the racing industry's disciplinary body, Kerry Hoggard has resigned after former ACT MP Stephen Franks criticised his appointment as a bad joke. Audio

6:39 PM.In Japan, victims of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster have been told they must pay back thousands of dollars of compensation they've been given. Audio

6:36 PM.The owner of an Auckland Security Company says despite six thefts in nine months at a roading construction site he considered it a low-risk workplace. Audio

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

6:22 PM.The mother of a teenager who almost died in a car crash was distressed to find she'd then been billed close to 14-hundred dollars by the Transport Agency. Audio

6:19 PM.News from the business sector. Audio

6:16 PM.An inquest has heard that in the days before a 13 year old runaway crashed a car and died, Child Youth and Family and the police were confused over who was responsible for finding him. Audio

6:08 PM.A search is on for forty or so Tongans that Immigration New Zealand estimates had their criminal records wiped to get into this country. Audio

5:50 PM.Opposition parties are calling on the Government to ditch its proposed deal with Sky City to build an international convention centre in Auckland. Audio

5:46 PM.The Supreme Court has heard the Crown had a duty to fully explain what they were doing when they bought land and a riverbed from a hapu at the end of the nineteenth century; Official figures show… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.The Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has been forced to defend the revised plan on closing and merging schools in Christchurch. Audio

5:40 PM.The Government's planning to force tobacco companies into plain packaging for cigarettes and other products, but a law change is entirely dependent on potential legal action in Australia. Audio

5:37 PM.Angry children, parents and teachers have been marching on the Ministry of Education's Christchurch office this afternoon. Audio

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

5:28 PM.Plans are underway for a new undersea cable for telephone and internet, linking Australia and New Zealand, just months after an earlier proposal collapsed for lack of support. Audio

5:26 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:22 PM.Three nephews of the MP Hone Harawira are facing charges of assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Audio

5:18 PM.The Tongan police said today their audit shows a total of 172 cases of criminals getting a clean bill of health in police letters used to secure a visitors visa - though it appears most of those were… Read more Audio