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More people were injured at home than in the work place last year at a cost of 272 million dollars. Audio

NZX has boosted its underlying half year profit by 42 percent. The stock market operator made an underlying profit of 6.6 million dollars in the six months to the end of June - compared with 4.7… Read more Audio

Returning to the cold weather battering the country at the moment, pupils at Wellington's Karori Normal School arrived this morning to find their playground blanketed in white. Audio

Dunedin's hill suburbs were largely shut down today by the large snow dump. Audio

Among those out on Wellington's roads are scores of taxi drivers. Audio

Snow's still falling in the capital as it has been for much of the day, and in the last half hour there's also been lightning and thunder. Audio

Opposition parties say the country's children are being short-changed, but they can't seem to agree on how to solve the problem. Audio

The veteran political activist, John Minto, has added his tribute to the many pouring in for the former Governor General Sir Paul Reeves; The Maori population has risen to nearly 664-thousand; The… Read more Audio

The polar blast has coincided with the first day of the whitebait season. Audio

Seventeen hundred dairy farmers across New Zealand are having to dump milk because tankers can't get through the snow to collect it. Audio

Snow has fallen throughout Auckland, including the heart of the city. Audio

The Met Service says Wellington hasn't seen this much snow since June 1976. Audio