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Business confidence is at its highest level in six months, bouncing back from the weak dairy prices and global economic uncertainty that saw it fall to a six-year low in May. Audio

The debt-laden Christchurch City Council has started its controversial programme of asset sales, announcing it's putting on the block, the big maintenance firm City Care. Audio

The Labour leader has unveiled the new line-up he intends to take into the 2017 election with Jacinda Ardern a winner and David Cunliffe a loser. Audio

Thousands of people converged on Eden Park today to remember All Black great Jonah Lomu. Audio

An elderly woman, with worsening dementia, was slapped and pushed so badly by a healthcare worker at a private geriatic hospital, she was unable to walk. Audio

Homes have been evacuated in Southshore near New Brighton and most of the Christchurch suburb is cordoned off, under threat from a fire that's spread from the dunes into nearby trees. Audio

The High Court has heard that a Malaysian diplomat was naked from the waist down when he assaulted a Wellington woman in her bedroom in May last year. Audio

A Malaysian dipolmat, naked from the waist down, when he assaulted a Wellington woman. An elderly dementia patient unable to walk because she'd been hit so badly and - final tributes for Jonah Lomu at… Read more Audio

Children who get acute rheumatic fever and need heart surgery continue to battle the disease in later life. Audio

As another eleven convicted criminals were sent back to New Zealand this week, the Labour Party was in Canberra applying direct pressure to the Australian Government to change its immigration rules. Audio

With just three northern white rhino left on the planet scientists are relying on reproductive technology to keep the species going. Audio

A gay couple who were hoping to renew their vows on a Cook Island beach last weekend, have been barred by the local community. Audio