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5:44 PM.Senior government ministers have refused to get drawn in to a full blown coalition dispute over the three strikes law, with both Labour and New Zealand First trying to shut the story down. Video, Audio

5:40 PM.The Department of Conservation withheld official information after demands from controversial security firm Thompson and Clark, internal emails show. Zac Fleming reports. Read more Video, Audio

5:37 PM.Police have apologised and will pay damages to investigative journalist Nicky Hager for breaching his rights during its 2014 investigation into his book Dirty Politics. Video, Audio

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

5:25 PM.President of the Forest Owners Association Peter Weir says forestry companies would like to help property owners clean up, but can't get into their forests nor get machinery out. Read more Video, Audio

5:20 PM.Farmers in flood hit Tolaga Bay want forestry companies to put up $100m to help clean the damage done to their stock and properties by runaway slash. They're also considering legal action. Read more Video, Audio

6:28 PM.The largest US actors' union and the four major US television networks have agreed to limit auditions in private hotel rooms and homes following the #MeToo movement. Video, Audio

6:15 PM.Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un prepare for tomorrow's historic summit in Singapore. Anna Fifield from the Washington Post is there. Video, Audio

6:11 PM.The Gisborne area is bracing for more heavy rain just a week after flash flooding hit Tolaga Bay. Our reporter Anusha Bradley joins us live. Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.Justice Minister Andrew Little has had to call off plans to repeal the 2010 three strikes law after New Zealand First refused to give its support. Video, Audio

5:57 PM.Eufemia Garcia watched in horror as the Fuego volcano sent scalding ash and gas surging over her home a week ago, burying her children and grandson among 50 of her extended family. Video, Audio

5:44 PM.A Southland mum has made it her mission to find out what schools used seclusion in the past, but the Ministry of Education says it simply doesn't know.  Read more Audio

5:39 PM.Two years ago, Susan McEwan was running the biggest calf rearing operation in the South Island, but now she's cleaning in Palmerston. She says Mycoplasma bovis is to blame. You can hear more on… Read more Video, Audio

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

5:27 PM.Kensington Palace confirmed today that Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle are set to make their first official visit to New Zealand this October. Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.Police Commissioner Mike Bush says Steven Quan Li and his wife Fan Yang made more than $4.5 million from a website which sold completed assignments to students, and their money should be forfeited… Read more Video, Audio

5:21 PM.The US and Canada swung sharply toward a diplomatic and trade crisis today as top White House advisers lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the wake of the G-7 summit. Video, Audio

5:14 PM.Metservice has issued a heavy rain warning for Gisborne tonight which could cause streams and rivers to rise rapidly. It also warns surface flooding and slips are possible. Video, Audio

5:13 PM.The government plans to declare the damage caused by last week's flooding near Tolaga Bay as a Medium Scale Adverse Event - triggering more support for the region. Audio

5:09 PM.In a humiliating about-turn, Justice Minister Andrew Little has dropped plans to repeal the three strikes law after New Zealand First refused to give its support. Video, Audio

6:25 PM.The North Taranaki SPCA says it's no closer to identifying the owners of a moggie who spent four and a half hours clinging to the grill of a car from Orewa to New Plymouth. Video, Audio