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The Department of Conservation has leapt to the defence of a fisher who accidentally caught a great white shark off the coast of Taranaki at the weekend.

Rob Ansley of Ocean Pearl Fisheries has faced… Read more Video, Audio

People with exemption visas to travel to New Zealand have been prevented from boarding a Malaysia Airlines flight from Cambodia, after the airline refused to accept their paperwork.

A New Zealander… Read more Audio

A teen killer remains on the run tonight after he and another young man escaped from a youth justice facility over the weekend.

Haami Hanara and Sean Ratu got out through a window at Korowai Manaaki… Read more Audio

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

There are major concerns for the mental health of the residents of nine Melbourne tower blocks that have been locked down amid fears Covid-19 could spread out of control in the high-rises.

There are… Read more Video, Audio

Locals have thrown their support behind legal action launched against the producers of potentially-toxic waste stored at a disused papermill in Mataura.

The Environmental Defence Society has filed… Read more Audio

The Government has launched an independent inquiry into who leaked the private details of people who have tested positive for Covid-19.

Queen's Counsel Michael Heron has been appointed to lead the… Read more Audio

Will a surge in Covid cases in Victoria affect the timeframe for a trans-tasman bubble?

Here was Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response at her post Cabinet press conference this afternoon. Read more Video, Audio

New South Wales Police are calling in the defence force to help them close the border with Victoria for the first time in more than a century, as Covid-19 cases surge in the southern state.

With 127… Read more Audio

Despite border restrictions, more than 200 film and TV production workers will have arrived in New Zealand by the end of the year. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has confirmed… Read more Audio

The building and construction sector generates about 20 percent of New Zealand's carbon emissions and 50 percent of material going to landfill. The Government has a plan to make building more… Read more Audio

The National backbencher Hamish Walker has been pulled into line by his leader Todd Muller, over comments he made about New Zealanders returning from Asia. The Clutha-Southland MP put out a press… Read more Audio