New Zealand

Family doctors have run out of supplies of a meningitis vaccine amid rising worry about the nasty meningococcal W strain in Northland. Health Correspondent Karen Brown reports. Audio

Māori Council is calling on iwi to come together to establish a Māori Bank because Māori are being let down and shut out by the four big Australian owned banks. Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio

Two Auckland women have locked horns over the fate of a sickly goat, who was picked up from a roadside paddock amid concerns he was on death's door. Video, Audio

Ryan Walsh was driving just under 100kmh on Sunday when a tree fell, destroying his beloved Honda City. Remarkably, he managed to wriggle out - later learning he broke his neck and fractured six ribs… Video, Audio

The Reserve Bank will loosen its loan-to-value restrictions for both owner-occupiers and investors in January and has hinted it could ease them further in the future. Audio

Much of the information the Immigration Minister says he referred to when deciding that Czech drug smuggler Karel Sroubek will be liable for deportation was in the briefing notes he read when he made… Video, Audio

South Islanders are celebrating the reopening of the Coastal Pacific Rail Line, which was wrecked by the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake. Video, Audio

A youth group in the Auckland of suburb Glen Innes is using kapa haka to bring its community together after a decade of turbulent changes. Video, Audio

A wastewater pipe in a west Auckland creek has ruptured, spilling human faeces and sanitary pads into the water. But it wasn't Watercare which discovered the leak - it was a local kayaker. Video, Audio

RNZ reporter Laura Dooney is at the remote Wairarapa beach where the body of a pregnant Wellington woman was found this week. Video, Audio

RNZ sports reporter Clay Wilson has the latest news and happenings in sport - including the decision from Niko Jones, the son of All Blacks legend Sir Michael Jones, to stay in Auckland to play… Video, Audio

The Post Primary Teachers Association President Jack Boyle says there is an unprecedented teacher shortage and it is becoming harder to attract people into the profession. Video, Audio

14-year-old Haami Hanara has been found guilty of murdering 40-year-old Kelly Donner after stabbing him four times during a fight over a torch. Video, Audio