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The Government is refusing to be drawn on how much money might be taken from a depositors' savings to bail out a bank, if it looks like it will fail. Audio

The Prime Minister has defended the Government's electronic spy agency against accusations it knew in February last year it had illegally monitored the internet millionnaire, Kim Dotcom. Audio

Derrick Adams is the head HEB Construction which employed George Taiaroa. Audio

Police investigating the extraordinary shooting of a roadworker doing traffic control, can't yet say if the victim knew his killer or whether it was a random attack. Audio

Police hunt for the killer of a roadworker. John Key defends the spy agency against more Dotcom allegations and Crown appeals mugger's sentence. Audio

It's ten years today since the invasion of Iraq began and Britain is grappling with the assessment of its role in the war as Olly Barratt explains. Audio

Fewer than a dozen people in the country's drought zones have signed up for the governments' Rural Assistance package. Audio

A man has to pay over 50 thousand dollars for cutting down native trees in a special ecological area so he could have a clear view of Tauranga Harbour from his spa pool. Audio

Iwi, scientists and children marched on Parliament today demanding a stop to the commercial fishing of longfin tuna or eels; An attempt to set up a tribal parliament for Te Arawa by May has stalled; A… Read more Audio

A high chief has criticised the Fijian Government's decision to appoint the chairpersons of provincial councils. Audio

A coroner says a deerstalker shot dead last year by his friend could still be alive today if recommendations from a previous inquest had been followed and made into law Audio

The cost of fixing the school payroll system, Novopay, hit 11-million-dollars today with the announcement of a six-million-dollar compensation package for schools Audio