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A Christchurch school says it's been blindsided by a proposal to shut it down. Redcliffs School has been running out of a deaf education centre in Sumner since the earthquakes. Audio

New Zealand exporters will automatically save 65-million-dollars a year under a trade deal signed with Korea today, rising to 230-million over the next 15 or so years. Audio

A former Blenheim surgeon with a history of patients dying on his operating table has been told to apologise over the care given to an elderly patient in 2012. Audio

A prisoner is a serious condition in hospital after being attacked by other inmates in Hawke's Bay Prison. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

Two Auckland councillors are calling for a new debate over the imminent expansion of the city's wharves. Audio

Lee Kuan Yew, the authoritian leader who transformed Singapore from a colonial backwater into global trade and financial centre has died, aged 91. Audio

The Blackcaps have been forced to make a change to their squad for their Cricket World Cup semi-final against South Africa at Eden Park tomorrow. Audio

A ship's captain who was five times over the legal limit has been fined for operating a 38 thousand tonne vessel with excess breath alcohol. Audio

Two boys rowed in top school races on Lake Karapiro today within an hour of a court slapping down their college's ban on them competing. Audio

A police dive squad is poised to go into the ocean off cliffs in the Catlins for a second time this afternoon in their search for missing Invercargill boy Michael Zhao-Beckenridge. Audio

Dive squad poised to go into the ocean in search for missing boy; Court overrules ban on St Bede's rowers; Ship master fined after being five times over the legal limit; Blackcaps forced to make a… Read more Audio