Top Stories for Thursday 12 October 2017

Police have confirmed most of the country has been without fixed speed cameras for more than a year. The Tongan community in Palmerston North are mourning the loss of a mother, teacher and recently ordained preacher who was killed in a crash that took the lives of three others. A power failure in a machine at Auckland Airport last night caused chaos with a thousand passengers having to be re-screened at security and all international flights were delayed. It's crunch time for Winston Peters - as he pushes into the final day of talks over forming a new government. The Benefit Review Committee has been criticised by the Social Security Appeal Authority for using false names to protect staff from what they call "volatile clients." A transsexual woman from the UK has been granted residence in New Zealand on humanitarian grounds after suffering years of abuse and violence in Britain. The accusations around Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein continue to grow. US firefighters battling wildfires in California's wine country face the prospect of new outbreaks today, when dry, windy conditions return to the region.