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In an email, Te Whatu Ora has told some staff they have to take three weeks mandatory leave and it needs to be taken from 23 December to 10 January. That amounts to 11 leave days and four statutory… Read more Audio

Australia's transport authority said New Zealander Blake Wilson was drunk when he stole a helicopter and fatally crashed it into a hotel, but it's not clear why he did it. The 23 year old flew a… Read more Audio

Australia correspondent Nick Grimm spoke to Lisa Owen about Australia gaining a new political party and a summit underway in Sydney today, examining the harms caused by social media. Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report Audio

Community leader Dave Letele has confirmed his South Auckland foodbank will close for good after Christmas. Mr Letele runs a number of programmes in South and West Auckland through his business… Read more Audio

Despite it being a year since they were last together, the Kiwi Ferns are looking to maintain their winning momentum ahead of their Pacific Championships defence starting later this month. A… Read more Audio

Divers from New Zealand and Samoa have been at the sunken HMNZS Manawanui all day working out how to seal three diesel leaks on the underside of the warship. The Manawanui ran aground on the Tafitoala… Read more Audio

In the past week Israel has issued several new evacution orders for parts of Gaza as it launches new military operations further into the north, according to the UN. That has displaced an estimated… Read more Audio

Florida is being lashed by Hurricane Milton - with flash flooding, 200 kilometre an hour winds, torrential rain, tornadoes and a devastating storm surge.The monster storm came ashore as a category… Read more Audio

There are now more te reo Maori speakers than ever before. Data from the 2023 Census shows that more than 200 hundred thousand people - or 4.3 percent of Kiwis - can hold a conversation in te reo… Read more Audio

A West Auckland GP practice has been forced to defer tax payments and ask for a rent holiday because of a growing number of patients unable to pay.  Earlier this week we brought you the story of… Read more Audio

A kiwi holidaying in Florida is hunkered down with Hurricane Milton expected to hit the Tampa suburb, where she's stuck in a condo as it makes landfall. Pamela East is staying in a ground floor… Read more Audio