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7:53 AM.Wellington City Councillors accused of leaking information about the derelict Reading Cinema site in central Wellington are refusing to take part in an investigation.

The complaint, made last month… Read more Audio

7:41 AM.Auckland Council says it will begin buy-out talks with category 3 homeowners, and will compensate those category 2 homeowners who need to have work done to reduce the future risk to life at their… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.The first police officers inside Al Noor mosque after the 2019 Christchurch terror attacks say they did not have the staff or the medical supplies to properly begin treating and removing badly injured… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.The latest labour market data shows wages rose by 4.3 percent in the past year.

Growth in the public sector far outpaced that in the private sector - which is attributed to large settlements in… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.One person has died in a house fire on Wednesday night in Hamilton.

Reporter Felix Walton spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Read more Audio

7:21 AM.Dozens of critically injured Palestinians and hundreds of foreign nationals have crossed into Egypt from Gaza.

The opening of the Rafah border crossing has allowed the first evacuations since the… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.There is a record number of children attending school, with 831,000 children currently enrolled, the highest number ever.

The Education Ministry's mid-year roll count shows schools have nearly 16,000… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.Police want to cut the number of people remanded in custody.

Forty-four percent of people in our prisons are on remand and police saying reducing that number is a top priority even while… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.The latest labour market data shows wages are up - but so is unemployment.

The under-utilisation rate - which reflects untapped capacity in the market, like people who are unemployed but available to… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Unemployment is at its highest rate in two years, while wage inflation is dropping.

ASB Senior Economist Mark Smith says the third quarter 3.9 percent increase in unemployment figures are to be… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.In Napier, unsafe levels of paralytic shellfish toxins have been detected in mussels tested from Pania Reef.

A biotoxin warning is in place for those gathering and eating shellfish in Hawke's Bay… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.The coach of Australia's rugby team, the Wallabies, has resigned after a disastrous run at the World Cup in France.

Eddie Jones was appointed in January to much fanfare in Australia - only weeks… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Staff at Te Pūkenga are surprised, and some are unhappy the super-institute is pushing ahead with more changes.

It has just finished a major restructure that cost 200 jobs and now it is consulting on… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Councils want more certainty over what the change of government means for their water assets, and their finances.

To the delight of councils opposed to Three Waters, National has promised to start… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Australian firefighters are battling intense bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales, where the conditions are so severe they are focusing on saving lives, rather than properties.

Authorities… Read more Audio

8:28 AM.A Māori birthing unit recommended for Hawke's Bay is languishing in a queue of work Te Whatu Ora has picked up after District Health Boards were folded into the entity.

A birthing unit was… Read more Audio