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5:09 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has placed the blame for rising fuel prices squarely at the door of petrol companies and says the government will fast-track legislation to force them to open their… Read more Video, Audio

6:25 PM.Award-winning Tuvalu artist Lakiloko Keakea has become the first artist from the small Pacific nation to hold a solo art exhibition in New Zealand. Indira Stewart reports. Video, Audio

6:13 PM.Police, hoping to re-enter the Pike River mine, are looking for international advice on the best way to forensically examine it once they're inside. Logan Church reports. Video, Audio

5:56 PM.Businesses in quake-hit Christchurch say constant tagging attacks by vandals are making it even harder to attract people back into the CBD. Video, Audio

5:52 PM.Reporter Charlie Dreaver and visual journalist Richard Tindiller spend hours with police at a checkpoint in Petone in Wellington. As they discover, drivers still aren't getting the basics, such as… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.Labour MP Meka Whaitiri was sacked as Minister of Customs and from her four associate ministries for her conduct towards a staffer at an event in Gisborne in August. Gia Garrick has the details. Video, Audio

5:38 PM.Finnish food packaging firm Huhtamaki, which has been operating in New Zealand since the 1930s, is moving more than half of its production overseas in a bid to try and increase profits. Video, Audio

5:23 PM.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will visit the Maranui Café when in New Zealand for five days later this month. Café co-owner Katie Richardson spoke to Checkpoint presenter Alex Perrottet. Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.Dylan Nuku, who was born in prison, has been sentenced to seven years behind bars for the brutal shooting of a taxi driver in November after refusing to pay him for a trip home. Audio

5:12 PM.There are sighs of relief in Taupo, but outrage in Rotorua after the government confirmed who would keep and who would lose their rescue helicopter bases. Anusha Bradley reports. Audio

5:00 PM.Watch Friday's full show here. Video

6:23 PM.A Tauranga resident is looking to reunite a goldfish with its owner, after her cat dragged it in for breakfast. Video, Audio

6:20 PM.The APRA Silver Scrolls are New Zealand's top songwriting awards with Marlon Williams, Chelsea Jade, Troy Kingi, the Beths and Unknown Mortal Orchestra in the running. RNZ Music's Alex Behan talks to… Read more Video, Audio

6:12 PM.Sir Bruce Ferguson, the director of the GCSB from 2006 to 2011, says judging by what Andrew Hampton has made public today - the threat of cyber warfare has intensified as technology continues to… Read more Video, Audio

5:41 PM.Parliamentary Service has refused to give permission for an investigation into the National Party leak to trawl through staffers' communications for the several months before the actual leak happened.

5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio