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5:32 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:25 PM.Groups representing school teachers, principals and trustees are worried the Government is considering changing the way it funds schools. Audio

5:23 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:18 PM.A week-long seige in an Alabama bunker has ended with the hostage-taker dead and the rescue of a five-year-old boy. Audio

5:15 PM.The police have revealed a young Auckland man who was burned to death withdrew tens of thousands of dollars hours before he disappeared. Audio

5:12 PM.The Prime Minister has made his annual appearance today on the Waitangi marae - after a stoush between two kuia over who should escort him. Audio

5:06 PM.A paedophile who was arranging to pay 500 dollars for access to a toddler has pleaded guilty to multiple charges - with police saying he's part of international child abuse ring. Audio

5:00 PM.Police crack an international paedophile ring. A kuia stoush at Waitangi and the week-long seige in an Alabama bunker is over. Audio

6:57 PM.Charities want a payroll giving scheme changed so it's better suited to small businesses. Audio

6:47 PM.The Waitangi Tribunal has rejected a plea from a Far North iwi to use special powers to order the Crown to return land wrongly taken from the iwi; The MP for Te Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira, expects… Read more Audio

6:42 PM.The Japanese Government has been forced to prop up its whaling programme with injections of a new taxpayer funded subsidy. Audio

6:37 PM.Calls for Titewhai Harawira to step aside at Waitangi appear to have fallen on deaf ears. Audio

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

6:28 PM.The America's cup challenger Team New Zealand has launched the yacht which it hopes will bring back the trophy later this year. Audio

6:24 PM.The Government has agreed to delay considering David Bain's bid for compensation over his wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Audio

6:22 PM.The agri-tech firm, Tru-Test, has bought the milk storage and refrigeration provider, Dairy Technology Services, for an undisclosed price. Audio

6:19 PM.A Rotorua woman is tonight beginning a 17 year sentence for killing her lover last November. Audio

6:12 PM.The chief executive of the state-owned coal mining company, Solid Energy, has suddenly quit his one-point-four million dollar job, but just why is not clear. Audio

6:08 PM.A man left brain injured and in a wheelchair after a police chase in Auckland says they're not to blame despite a report revealing numerous mistakes and breaches by the police. Audio

5:50 PM.A hospital midwife who failed to realise a baby was in distress because she monitored the mother's heart by mistake was too embarrassed to admit she didn't know how to use the equipment. Audio

5:47 PM.The Waitangi Tribunal has rejected a plea from a Far North iwi to use special powers to order the Crown to return land wrongly taken from the iwi; The MP for Te Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira, expects… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.About a third of American's watch it - and today for the first time ever there was a power black out that plunged the country's most famous sporting spectacle into darkness. Audio

5:40 PM.David Shearer's leadership of the Labour Party has been endorsed for the second time in a couple of months and he says it puts his hold on the job beyond question. Audio

5:37 PM.A Dunedin woman charged with abducting her two-year-old granddaughter tried to evade police by changing her car's number plates. Audio

5:32 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio