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An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

The signing of the Declaration of Independence of New Zealand is being celebrated on the Waitangi Treaty grounds for the first time, on its 180th anniversary. Audio

The good ol' Aussie accent has its origins in drunken slurring. Audio

The Wellington Phoenix captain Andrew Durante says his players were shocked when they first heard the news that Australian football's ruling body had declined the club's request to stay in the… Read more Audio

The Ministry for the Environment has blasted a report by the OECD on New Zealand's environmental record. Audio

More light has been shed on what happened to a man whose body was found down a bank on the Paekakariki Hill Road north of Wellington a year ago. Audio

A group backed by National Party members is hoping to win control of Auckland's Council in next year's elections. Audio

A coroner's inquest has heard a man who accidentally ran over his wife and killed her, had an affair just months before, and was back on a dating sight only two weeks after her death. Audio

The BNZ has reported a 22 percent rise in its net profit to a record one-billion dollars for the year to September. Audio

The 'Richetty grub'.... The ' master of the dark arts of breakdown cheating'... and 'the only thing standing between the Wallabies and World Cup glory'. Audio

A woman has been awarded 13 thousand dollars for being sacked from her Auckland bar job after she'd worked there for a little over a week. Audio

A man's private Facebook message has come back to haunt him, costing him thousands of dollars. Audio