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6:16 PM.A freeze on Air New Zealand flights coming back into the country is expected to affect thousands of kiwis trying to get home over the coming weeks. The airline and the Government have agreed to put… Read more Audio

6:06 PM.National's Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker has confirmed he leaked the personal details of Covid-19 patients to the media. Former National Party president and acting CEO of the Auckland Rescue… Read more Video, Audio

5:53 PM.The Islamic Women's Council says the last year's mosque attacks may never have happened if the Government listened to its concerns about rising hostility towards Muslims. The council has publicly… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM.The Southern DHB is pushing for Dunedin and Invercargill to be used for managed isolation ahead of Queenstown, due to concerns about its lack of medical facilities. The DHB has been meeting today to… Read more Audio

5:41 PM.Locals and their leaders in Victoria and New South Wales border towns say they're still in the dark as to how they'll live their lives under the strict border closures coming into force at midnight… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:27 PM.The former partner of murdered flaxmere man Kelly Donner is urging his killer to give up the chase. Haami Hanara was 14 when he fatally stabbed Mr Donner - and is tonight still on the run after… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.Air New Zealand hasn't ruled out the possibility of extending a three week freeze on bookings for passengers wanting to come home to New Zealand, so the government can cope with increasing demand on… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.But we begin with a developing story involving two conflicting reports and two ministers at loggerheads over the future location of the Port of Auckland. The first report, led by Wayne Brown and… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.Labour and New Zealand First are once again at odds, this time over where to shift the port of Auckland. Transport Minister and senior Labour MP Phil Twyford has joined forces with his former… Read more Audio

6:21 PM.Age Concern Wellington is worried that some elderly people are becoming isolated post-lockdown, with many still concerned about leaving their homes.

More than 170,000 people over the age of 65 live… Read more Video, Audio

6:16 PM.Heavy rain warnings for Auckland and Northland have now been lifted, but the unsettled weather is set to continue.

Winds gusting up to 100km an hour battered our largest city overnight, keeping… Read more Audio

6:13 PM.Residents at Auckland's Stamford Plaza Hotel are livid they were not consulted for a second time that people returning from overseas would be in managed isolation there.

Last month the government… Read more Audio

5:54 PM.The Department of Conservation has leapt to the defence of a fisher who accidentally caught a great white shark off the coast of Taranaki at the weekend.

Rob Ansley of Ocean Pearl Fisheries has faced… Read more Video, Audio

5:47 PM.People with exemption visas to travel to New Zealand have been prevented from boarding a Malaysia Airlines flight from Cambodia, after the airline refused to accept their paperwork.

A New Zealander… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.A teen killer remains on the run tonight after he and another young man escaped from a youth justice facility over the weekend.

Haami Hanara and Sean Ratu got out through a window at Korowai Manaaki… Read more Audio

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

5:23 PM.There are major concerns for the mental health of the residents of nine Melbourne tower blocks that have been locked down amid fears Covid-19 could spread out of control in the high-rises.

There are… Read more Video, Audio

5:19 PM.Locals have thrown their support behind legal action launched against the producers of potentially-toxic waste stored at a disused papermill in Mataura.

The Environmental Defence Society has filed… Read more Audio

5:15 PM.The Government has launched an independent inquiry into who leaked the private details of people who have tested positive for Covid-19.

Queen's Counsel Michael Heron has been appointed to lead the… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.Will a surge in Covid cases in Victoria affect the timeframe for a trans-tasman bubble?

Here was Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response at her post Cabinet press conference this afternoon. Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.New South Wales Police are calling in the defence force to help them close the border with Victoria for the first time in more than a century, as Covid-19 cases surge in the southern state.

With 127… Read more Audio

6:26 PM.Despite border restrictions, more than 200 film and TV production workers will have arrived in New Zealand by the end of the year. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has confirmed… Read more Audio

6:23 PM.The building and construction sector generates about 20 percent of New Zealand's carbon emissions and 50 percent of material going to landfill. The Government has a plan to make building more… Read more Audio

6:20 PM.The National backbencher Hamish Walker has been pulled into line by his leader Todd Muller, over comments he made about New Zealanders returning from Asia. The Clutha-Southland MP put out a press… Read more Audio