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5:51 PM.The Budget in May allocated $15 million for public media and today the Government announced it will be split between a new Innovation Fund, RNZ and NZ On Air. Video, Audio

5:45 PM.The Wild Boar football team and their coach have been rescued from Tham Luang cave in Thailand 17 days after they were trapped four kilometres underground. CNN correspondent Ivan Watson talks to John… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.The Department of Conservation is proposing 34 full or partial track closures across Northland, Coromandel, Great Barrier Island and Tauranga, but that's being criticised for not going far enough. Video, Audio

5:38 PM.Auckland woman Louise Richardson Says she complained to Auckland Council about Ee Kuoh Lau, who was yesterday jailed for two years for repeatedly breaching the Resource Management Act, years before it… Read more Audio

5:19 PM.Tauranga iwi Ngai Te Rangi says it will pay an $11,000 cash reward for anyone with information about Anihera Black's claims that her late ex-husband Te Awanuiārangi Black was a paedophile. Video, Audio

5:15 PM.The perilous mission to rescue 12 boys and their coach from deep within a Thailand cave has ended more than two weeks after they were trapped by rising floodwaters. Video, Audio

5:14 PM.GPs and doctors clinics are gearing up for thousands of nurses to walk off the wards tomorrow, with elective surgeries postponed and hospitals winding down. Audio

5:09 PM.Thousands of nurses are scheduled to walk off the job at 7am tomorrow for a 24-hour strike. Last-ditch talks with District Health Board negotiators ended mid morning. Video, Audio

6:20 PM.Free Speech Coalition has raised $50,000 in 24 hours to bring judicial proceedings against Auckland Council over its decision to ban two right-wing speakers from using a council venue for a seminar… Read more Audio

5:53 PM.Housing Minister Phil Twyford has unveiled details of plans to replace a HNZ high-rise in Auckland's central city with a new 'state of the art' housing unit for the homeless, state housing tenants and… Read more Video, Audio

5:47 PM.Ray Smith has contradicted statements made by senior government ministers in Parliament, that a contract for the public private partnership to build the new Waikeria prison was already in place when… Read more Video, Audio

5:38 PM.Auckland property developer Ee Ku-oh Lau, also known as Augustine Lau, has been sent to jail for repeatedly and brazenly ignoring the Resource Management act. Video, Audio

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

5:24 PM.The MMR vaccine has been recalled in Samoa after two babies died within hours after receiving it. But a New Zealand expert warns it shouldn't put people off getting the vaccine here. Audio

5:19 PM.Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May's precarious balancing act on Brexit is now increasingly a referendum on her leadership after three resignations, the latest from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson… Read more Video, Audio

5:15 PM.The eight boys that have been rescued from the Thailand cave are walking around, eating and enjoying chocolate, CNN correspondent David McKenzie tells John Campbell. Video, Audio

5:13 PM.Divers have gone into Tham Luang cave, Thailand, for a third rescue attempt, following two successful rescues on Sunday and Monday. Video, Audio

5:09 PM.Nurses have voted to strike after rejecting the latest pay offer from DHBs. The boards and nurses' union are meeting in a last-ditch attempt to avert the nationwide strike. Video, Audio

6:20 PM.Fashion designers have been left out of pocket in the wake of the closure of one New Zealand's largest fabric wholesalers. Read more Video, Audio

6:18 PM.British police have launched a full-blown murder inquiry after 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess, who was exposed to the nerve agent Novichok last week after visiting Salisbury, died in hospital. Video, Audio