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The Commerce Commission has confirmed what many drivers already suspected: they're probably paying too much at the petrol pump.

The competition watchdog says the big fuel companies' stranglehold over… Read more Video, Audio

Returning to Samoa now where just 5,000 people were vaccinated today as the medical teams raced against time to vaccinate the country's population against measles.

People were told to stay at home on… Read more Video, Audio

An experienced hiker who was swept almost to his death in a Tasman river, says it's the closest call he's ever had in the outdoors.

Chris Muse, an outdoor guide in Alaska, was walking the South… Read more Video, Audio

Many Ngāpuhi leaders are doubtful the Crown's renewed effort to get its Treaty settlement back on track will work, and are furious they've been given just days notice before an open hui about a way… Read more Video, Audio

The woman known as the "Black Widow" has won the right to have body samples of her dead husband released so they can be re-tested.

Helen Milner was jailed for life in 2014 and ordered to spend at… Read more Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

The Reserve Bank is going ahead with a plan to make banks hold significantly more capital to back their loans.

The decision is estimated to cost the banks $20 billion and is expected to increase… Read more Audio

Pharmac-funded research into whether people with epilepsy were imagining side effects from a medicine brand change has been suspended after four deaths were linked to the switch.

The research… Read more Video, Audio

The government is promising to push through new laws to help force down the price of petrol by mid next year.

A final report by the Commerce Commission into the retail fuel market has found industry… Read more Video, Audio

Samoa went into shutdown today as the death toll from the measles epidemic climbed to 62 and a two-day door to door vaccination campaign got underway.

People were told to stay at home today between… Read more Video, Audio

Flint, the conservation dog who spent 36 hours alone, muzzled on a subantarctic island, has been reunited with his owner.

The small Jack Russell-Fox Terrier cross was preparing to leave Campbell… Read more Audio

Firefighters are still battling a big blaze in an industrial area of South Auckland. Fire and Emergency says the fire broke out at a furniture removers, and 22 fire trucks are at a warehouse on Inlet… Read more Audio