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The government backs down and agrees to get tough on mine safety. The boyfriend of a woman missing for eight years is charged with her murder and Graham Capill is to be released from jail. Audio

The Ngapuhi hapu opposing early settlement of their treaty claims are holding a second hui in Auckland this evening; The Chair of the Waikato-Tainui executive says over the next three years his… Read more Audio

The record snow falls have made it as far up the country as Dargaville. Audio

South Canterbury Finance's main assets - its consumer, business and rural loans, have been sold to Japan's global investment bank Nomura. Audio

Crucial talks will be held tonight over the Eurozone's intensifying debt crisis. Audio

A plan to charge visitors to Stewart Island a 5 dollar fee is a step closer tonight. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Samoa's Supreme Court Justice, Vui Clarence Nelson, is calling for the maximum penalty for incest to be reviewed. Audio

A toddler struggling to breathe with croup as the blizzard closed in - what a family in the Akatarawa Valley near Upper Hutt was facing yesterday during the polar blast. Audio

News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

A petition calling for the removal of GST from food, and for a tax to be put on financial transactions instead, has been presented to Parliament. Audio

Queenstown is digging itself out of the biggest snow fall to hit the resort in half a century. Audio