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Associate Minister for Local Government Louise Upton says the government is open to all suggestions in deciding how to deal with dangerous dogs. Audio

The Wellington City Council is abandoning a suggestion to ban begging in the central city. Audio

Prime Minister, John Key, emerges unscathed from a fresh hail of questions about tax havens, spiced with exposure of a link to a legal specialist in foreign trusts among his pecuniary interests. Of… Read more Audio

In Nelson just after five o'clock today hundreds of people gathered in Victory Square in an attempt to break a world record of poi spinning. Audio

It's just six months until the local government elections, but in Christchurch, nobody has put their hand up to run for mayor. Audio

A family with a severely autistic daughter have nowhere to go after learning the home they purchased nine years ago is a leaky building. Audio

More than sixty jobs could be axed at the carpet manufacturer Cavalier. Kay Hearfield is the First Union organiser for Whanganui - Taranaki. Audio

The disability advocacy group, the IHC, says schools are demonising children with special needs. John Gerritsen reports. Audio

Apples and grapes may not be the dominant crops grown with water from the Ruataniwha Dam, investment company HBRIC has said. Audio

The Crown says two teenagers agreed to have consensual sex with a 54 year-old man before fatally bashing and robbing him. Auckland court reporter Edward Gay has been covering the case. Audio