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Should superannuants who are still earning big bucks in retirement pay a special higher tax rate, to cut the cost of pensions?

That's one idea up for discussion in a three-yearly review of retirement… Read more Video, Audio

Only a third of schools so far have signed on to the government's offer to compensate them for scrapping school donations.

The government has budgeted more than $75 million a year to pay $150 per… Read more Audio

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

Police are calling for anyone with video of a Dunedin flat party where a 19-year-old university student died to contact them.

Sophia Crestani died when hundreds of people tried to flee a party on… Read more Video, Audio

Protesters have been waving their flags all day at Gisborne as a replica of the Endeavour arrived to mark 250 years since Captain James Cook landed.

There's been a civic service with the… Read more Video, Audio

The competition watchdog has been left red faced after a computer which has confidential information on it was stolen from an external provider.

The Commerce Commission says the computer was taken in… Read more Video, Audio

Finance Minister Grant Robertson is hinting he's ready to spend up after unveiling the biggest Budget surplus in more than a decade.

The Reserve Bank has been strongly hinting that the government… Read more Video, Audio

The Kiwi who has officially become one of the biggest stars in one of the world's fastest growing sports says he's just getting started.

On Sunday Israel Adesanya became the undisputed world… Read more Video, Audio

Businesses struggling with disruption caused by the building of Auckland's City Rail Link say they've have heard nothing from the Transport Minister, months after a hardship fund was first mooted.

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Multiple Sclerosis sufferers feel abandoned by Pharmac's decision to fund a new drug for the nervous system disorder; but only for a limited number of people, determined by a strict screening… Read more Video, Audio

More than 30 police are investigating the death of a young woman at a Dunedin flat party on Saturday night.

Nineteen-year old Sophia Crestani, who was a second year student at the University of… Read more Video, Audio

All Blacks coach Steven Hansen says it's likely one of the knockout games at the Rugby World Cup will be decided by penalties.

A record number red and yellow cards have been handed out at the… Read more Video, Audio