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6:46 AM.Restaurants are reporting worse than normal Christmas booking numbers for this time of year.

A recent survey of 194 businesses conducted by the Restaurant Association shows 65 percent of respondents… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.In Ukraine, dimming prospects for additional aid to support its war with Russia is raising concern that the West's increasing disinterest could embolden Moscow.

Billions of dollars in new funding for… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.More than two-thirds of farmers in a rural crime survey say they have experienced a crime or a suspected crime in the last year - well up on the previous survey two years ago.

Federated Farmers… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.One of four new Māori-lead West Coast museums will be opened in a preview launch Thursday evening.

The Pounamu Pathway includes four centres telling the stories of Poutini Ngāi Tahu, the South… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.A Hamilton community feels bitterly betrayed about two schools being closed, only to be reopened on the same site, with the same facilities but with a new name.

Hamilton's Melville High junior… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.An international group of climate researchers has called out New Zealand over its approach to cutting emissions.

The non-profit group Climate Action Tracker has singled out this country along with… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Fake job listings seem to be the latest method of tricking people out of money among the myriad of quickly-changing scams.

CERT NZ's report on the July to October quarter notes a 22 percent rise in… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters is expected to call for a ceasefire in Gaza during Parliament on Thursday.

Parliament's agenda for Thursday afternoon states that Peters will ask it to express… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.A senior police officer says an Armed Offenders Squad commander on the day of the Christchurch terror attacks wasn't aware that extra specialist staff were in the city and could have helped.

The… Read more Audio

8:19 AM.The government has softened its stance on wanting to end extra pay for public service employees who are fluent in te reo Māori.

Some public service workers are eligible for allowances of up to $3,500… Read more Audio

8:11 AM.It's been a turbulent first week for the new government, without any semblance of a honeymoon period after finally taking office.

A major protest was led by Te Pāti Māori regarding many of the new… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Snoopy's Christmas by the Royal Guardsmen is a song that most people will recognise.

It's a song that New Zealanders know and love and have done since 1967 when it first topped our music charts.

But… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.A price bump and ads are coming for Neon subscribers next year. The service's owner - Sky TV - says the move is necessary to keep sourcing new content for the platform.

But how will Neon stack up… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Is it a case of the green washing of highways, or just bureaucratic slackness? Transport agency Waka Kotahi has been making exaggerated claims about how 'green' its road building is.

It has said four… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Recent modelling shows Wellington has a 24 percent chance of entering level four water restrictions this summer.

That means there is a supply buffer of five percent or less, and residents would have… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Residents in Lower Hutt are desperately hoping a "sickening" stench coming from a wastewater treatment plant will stop, following a commitment from authorities.

The smell coming from the… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.Israeli warplanes have carried out more heavy bombardments across Gaza, as fighting intensifies in the south of the territory.

Israeli forces are battling with Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters to the… Read more Audio