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Emergency department staff at Christchurch Hospital are continuing to be punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed by patients, despite efforts to stem violence and aggression by patients.

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Many New Zealanders will be familiar with that tune - from the rural television Sunday staple - "A Dog's Show".

The sheepdog trial programme which ran for 15 years until the early 1990s was hosted by… Audio

The country's consumer watchdog is skeptical about a move by supermarket chain Countdown to freeze the price of some products.

From Monday, Countdown will freeze the price of more than 500 essential… Audio

Some of DOC's great walks booked out this week in just a matter of minutes.

Huts and campsites on the Kepler, Milford and the Tongariro Northern Circuit are all booked out for January.

Anecdotally… Audio

Four Taranaki teenagers are hoping to carve up the opposition at the world junior surf champs in El Salvador.

Part of a 12-strong New Zealand team, the so-called Taranaki Grom Squad say they're… Video, Audio

Tim Watkin and panellists Mark Knoff-Thomas and Anjum Rahman discuss whether dogs are replacing children, Maradona's "hand of God" shirt and has op shopping become gentrified? Audio

Tim Watkin and panellists Mark Knoff-Thomas and Anjum Rahman discuss dental care for children, social media's role in the Mosque Attacks and the country's infrastructure deficit. Audio

Tim Watkin and panellists Mark Knoff-Thomas and Anjum Rahman talk to Lower Hutt's Eathlink on turning tetra packs into a type of gib. Audio

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found an officer used excess force during at least two arrests.

He's since left the police force.

In one case, in September 2018, the officer pushed a… Audio

Midday News for Thursday 5 May 2022 Audio

Wellingtonians have until next week to decide what they want to do about the city's tip.

The Southern Landfill is due to overflow in four years, and the council is looking at three very different… Audio

Auckland council is voting today on a $2 billion cycling plan which would double the number of cycleways in the city.

Bike Auckland would like to see the plan brought in.

Its chair Tony Mitchell… Audio

Auckland council is voting today on a $2 billion cycling plan which would double the number of cycleways in the city.

Josh Van Veen from the Auckland Ratepayers Alliance, says not one cent more… Audio

A decision by the coroner to investigate the role social media played in the Christchurch terror attack has been called a "landmark moment".

In an earlier decision, the Coroner's Court ruled that the… Audio

The Government is funding more driver licencing and training through a $86.5 million investment over four years, announced ahead of Budget 2022.

An estimated 64,000 New Zealanders will benefit from… Audio

A bureaucratic bungle left a disabled toddler stuck in Wellington Hospital for nearly three months.

Her mother had to provide intensive care-level nursing for her despite the rest of the family… Audio

The Coroner's Court has announced this morning the scope of what will, and won't, be covered in its investigation of the March 15 terrorist attack in Christchurch.

Questions will include whether the… Audio