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Otago businesses reeling after floods
5:48 PM.Some businesses on the Otago Peninsula that remain isolated after last weekend's storm fear it will cost them tens of thousands of dollars before they can get back on their feet. Audio
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National urges voters to back ACT, United Future
5:43 PM.Prime Minister Bill English announced today that National has struck electorate deals with ACT and United Future in the key seats of Epsom and Ohariu, and urged voters to back for them. Audio
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Evening business for 26 July 2017
5:34 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Metiria Turei under investigation for benefit fraud
5:26 PM.Green Party co-leader, Metiria Turei, is under investigation for benefit fraud. Audio
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Synthetic cannabis users talk to John Campbell
5:23 PM.Who is using synthetics, and why? John Campbell walks the streets of Auckland to find users, and it turns out they weren't hard to find at all. Video, Audio
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Eighth person dies from synthetic cannabis this month
5:23 PM.The synthetic cannabis death toll is rising, but police say they're no closer to discovering the source of the killer drug. Anusha Bradley reports. Video, Audio
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Thames firm in liquidation, 100 staff without jobs
5:20 PM.Thames engineering firm A & G Price has gone into liquidation this afternoon with the loss of around 100 jobs. Audio
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Police hunt for gunman on the run after shooting
5:16 PM.Two women were shot dead when they went to inspect a property in Whareora, near Whangarei this morning. A man is believe to be inside the house, which is on fire. RNZ reporter Lois Williams has the… Read more Audio
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Southern DHB medical officer to meet with dead man's family
5:08 PM.Southern DHB's Chief Medical Officer Nigel Millar talks to John Campbell about a shortage of ICU beds, which one family says contributed to their father's death. Read more Video, Audio
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Kava drinking club - cool or cultural appropriation?
6:24 PM.A social kava-drinking club in Auckland has come under fire from some Pacific people. Read more Audio
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Farms on Taieri Plains still submerged four days after deluge
6:20 PM.Stress levels are high for Otago farmers with flood waters still yet to subside. RNZ reporter Tom Furley went to talk to some of them today. Audio
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Boris Johnson visits wildlife sanctuary after bilateral talks at Parliament
6:17 PM.The British Foreign Secretary got up close and personal with some of New Zealand's endangered fauna today - and we're not talking about the country's politicians. Audio
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Dunedin Hospital needs 18 beds - Labour
6:14 PM.Labour's health spokesperson David Clark says Dunedin hospital's intensive care unit needs at least 18 beds. It currently has only six. Audio
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Urgent surgery postponed 7 times due to bed shortage
6:08 PM.Southern DHB has postponed urgent surgeries for months, cancelled as patients have been wheeled into surgery, and in at least one case a patient died on the waiting list, familes say. Video, Audio
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Pig farming, like you've never seen before
5:51 PM.SAFE is calling for a national ban on farrowing crates, used in 70 percent of pig farming in New Zealand. Checkpoint has exclusive footage secretly filmed inside the crates. Jessie Chiang reports. Read more Video, Audio
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Manslaughter accused planned to throw gun in skip
5:46 PM.Gustav Otto Sanft says a sawn-off shotgun went off in his hands while he looked it over and tried to light a cigarette, killing his daughter Amokura Daniels-Sanft. Edward Gay has the latest on the… Read more Audio
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Nearly 60 flood-hit Christchurch households need to find temporary accommodation
5:43 PM.Nearly 60 flood-hit households in Christchurch are having to find somewhere else to live because their properties are potentially contaminated with raw sewerage. Conan Young visited some of those… Read more Video, Audio
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Councils vote in favour of getting more powers to control cats
5:39 PM.The country's councils are calling on the Government to give them extra powers to protect wildlife from cats including microchipping, de-sexing and registration. Audio
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Todd Barclay makes silent return to Parliament
5:36 PM.Embattled Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay has made a low key return to Parliament following allegations he secretly recorded one of his electorate staffers, but he is still refusing to speak to… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening Business for 25 July 2017
5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Boris Johnson says Britain looking outwards as it exits EU
5:27 PM.Boris Johnson says the UK wants to have control of its own borders, but loves Kiwis coming into the country. The British Foreign Secretary met with the Government today and toured Zealandia. Video, Audio
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Not enough ICU beds at Southern DHB, CEO says
5:21 PM.Southern District Health Board's CEO Chris Fleming says the DHB does not have enough ICU beds and patient care is being delayed as a result. Video, Audio
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Chronic bed shortage forces surgery delays in Dunedin
5:08 PM.Several Southern DHB patients have had surgeries delayed multiple times because of a bed shortage in the intensive care unit, with one man passing away while he waited. Read more Video, Audio
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Future of Ngapuhi mandate up in the air
6:27 PM.The Ngāpuhi treaty settlement process has stalled once again, as Sonny Tau rejects a challenge for Tuhoronuku's leadership to stand down in order to help progress the claim. Audio
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MPs battle over election billboard spot in Christchurch
6:21 PM.National list MP Nuk Korako's team put a campaign poster over Labour MP Ruth Dyson's poster at the weekend, believing they were the only ones to have permission from the home owner. Video, Audio
