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5:45 PM.Zac Fleming travelled to a remote, mountainous region of northern Vietnam, to visit two New Zealanders helping to rescue and rehabilitate the country's ill-treated, vulnerable moon bears. He travelled… Read more Video, Audio

5:40 PM.New Plymouth's Yarrow Stadium was closed earlier this month due to earthquake risk. But it won't close in full, just in part. Because, as Taranaki Rugby CEO Jeremy Parkinson explains, it's better to… Read more Video, Audio

5:36 PM.Universities New Zealand says the zero-fee policy has had next to no impact on their enrolments, but education correspondent John Gerritsen found students in Wellington today telling a different… Read more Video, Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:25 PM.New Zealand Rugby League's new CEO Greg Peters says he was as "shocked and appalled as everybody else" by the tuneless rendition of the New Zealand National Anthem at the Kiwis versus England Rugby… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.Snow is falling, roads are closed and aggressively cold weather is expected to move from the south up the country over the next 24 hours. And if Aucklanders thought they'd had enough of the rain… Read more Video, Audio

5:13 PM.Royal New Zealand Ballet cancelled an interview between Checkpoint and its newest trustee, Reverend Toby Behan, and then said its chair Steven Fyfe and Frances Turner weren't available, despite… Read more Audio

5:09 PM.The main route between Gisborne and Opotiki has been cut off after a massive slip tumbled on to the road. This has forced motorists to use the East Cape trail, adding hours on to their journey. Video, Audio

6:25 PM.The increasingly popular sport of Kabaddi will see a New Zealand women's team travel to Malaysia to compete at the international challenge this weekend as a warm up to the World Cup. Ravinder Hunia… Read more Video, Audio

6:15 PM.Tens of thousands of women around the world and some in New Zealand say their breast implants are making them sick, but a medical expert claims scientific evidence proves otherwise. Audio

6:12 PM.Steven Blance and William Berkland, both members of the Mongrel Mob, pleaded guilty to a raft of drugs charges earlier this year. Video, Audio

6:08 PM.The Prime Minister's parents spoke to media today from their Nelson home as they prepare to fly to Auckland tomorrow to meet their granddaughter for the first time. Video, Audio

5:43 PM.Teenagers sent to youth justice residence Te Au Rere a te Tonga will almost certainly end up in jail, if their offending doesn't stop. In the second part of this series, John Campbell goes inside the… Read more Video, Audio

5:37 PM.Residents of flood-prone homes on Anzac Parade in Whānganui say the establishment of a fund to buy and remove the worst-affected properties and raise others off the ground is a joke. They don't want… Read more Video, Audio

5:32 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

5:27 PM.The neighbours of farms infected with the cattle-killing disease Mycoplasma Bovis will now be officially told that a nearby farm is infected. Video, Audio

5:20 PM.Five thousand mental health and addiction support workers will get the same pay rates as care and support workers, who won a historic pay equity case last year. Audio

5:17 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern posted a photo of herself and her midwife 'Libby' on Instagram today, but hasn't released information on a name. Reporter Katie Scotcher joins us from outside Auckland… Read more Video, Audio

5:13 PM.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will spend a second night in Auckland Hospital after giving birth to a girl late yesterday afternoon. Messages of congratulations have been flooding in from all over the… Read more Video, Audio

5:09 PM.There was drama in the skies today after a Mount Cook Airlines flight with 71 passengers on board was forced to return to Napier with what was reported to be a severed engine. Video, Audio

6:26 PM.Former Prime Minister Helen Clark says the birth of Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford's baby is a "proud day" for the couple and for New Zealand. She says it sends a message to all women that "you can… Read more Video, Audio

6:16 PM.CNN's White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins was with the US President when he signed the executive order to reverse the policy separating parents at the US-Mexico border. She told John Campbell… Read more Video, Audio

5:55 PM.There are growing calls for the cash-strapped Kaikōura district to be divvied up between its neighbours. Read more Video, Audio