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An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Twelve-year-olds in Taranaki could get the emergency contraceptive pill, free, from pharmacies under a new scheme proposed by the District Health Board. Audio

The listed firm, Rubicon, says its current share price doesn't reflect the true value of the firm. Audio

The police want to cut the number of Maori being prosecuted by 25 percent within six years (2018), but they will have to do it without any more funding. Audio

The former World and Olympic rowing champion, Rob Waddell, has been appointed Chef de Mission of the New Zealand Summer Olympic and Commonwealth Games Teams. Audio

Andy Thomson of the aid agency Oxfam is in Apia. Audio

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Murray McCully, says help is on standby, but Samoan authorities are coping well so far. Audio

In Samoa, streets are flooded, houses are smashed and uprooted trees litter the landscape, in the aftermath of the deadly cyclone that has killed at least three people. Audio

More and more students are wagging school and failing courses as they feed their addiction to online video games. Audio

The co-vice president of the Maori Party, Ken Mair, says party co-leader, Tariana Turia will leave behind a number of legacies, but the main one will be her Whanau Ora policy; Tuhoe says its upcoming… Read more Audio

A defence lawyer has told a jury his client is guilty of manslaughter only, as the Phillip Cottrell murder trial draws to a close. Audio

To Samoa, now where New Zealand's High Commissioner, Nick Hurley, is describing Cyclone Evan as the worst storm to hit in 20 years. Audio