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5:12 PM.The Police Minister has had to correct the record in Parliament - after wrongly pushing out the deadline for one of the Coalition's commitments. In a rapid backtrack, Mark Mitchell has now… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.A big win for a team of top NZ athletes could see them score the same rights, privileges and pay as employees. The Employment Relations Authority has found in favour of the elite rowers and cyclists… Read more Video, Audio

6:11 PM.A new species of Gecko discovered on the Auckland's West Coast at last has its own official name: the Korowai.

The species was first found in 2014 and after a decade of research the reptile can… Read more Video, Audio

6:06 PM.The government's bumped the Wellington water crisis on to an agency to work out who's going to pay for the huge upgrades needed in the capital. Wellington mayor Tory Whanau says the problem will take… Read more Video, Audio

5:54 PM.We all know about the cost of living, but what about the cost of dying? It's something you might not want to think about, but it could pay to. Consumer NZ puts the average price of a funeral at around… Read more Video, Audio

5:49 PM.Fifteen year old Yanhao Dwayne Li has made history winning NZ's first ever ice skating medal at any winter olympics. He took bronze for his free skating performance at the Youth Olympic games in… Read more Video, Audio

5:43 PM.It's never too early to turn back. That's the message from police after two trampers lost on Ruapehu had a slow painful walk off the mountain, helped down by a volunteer rescue team on Monday. Bad… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.A baby tiger cub has been put down after he suffered a head injury when he took a tumble in an enclosure at Auckland Zoo on the weekend. The cub born along with his sister almost a month ago, was… Read more Video, Audio

5:27 PM.James Shaw has called time on his tenure as Green Party co-leader. During his almost nine years in the job, James Shaw was temporarily ousted by party members and faced a leadership challenge. He also… Read more Video, Audio

5:23 PM.New Zealand jockey Kelsey Hannan says she is grateful to be alive after being thrown from her horse during a race in South Adelaide at the weekend. The 21-year-old was riding Iva Dream at the… Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.A shortage of specialist doctors means one senior clinician is being flown in from Australia for a week every month, and works the rest of the time remotely. Te Whatu Ora won't discuss how much this… Read more Video, Audio

5:13 PM.The Government came under fire from multiple fronts today over race relations, cuts to public spending, and foreign affairs as MPs returned to Parliament for the new year. The first day back was was… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.Bolstering the thin blue line will require a substantially fatter budget, according to the police commissioner. The government's promising five hundred new frontline police in the next two years and… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.According to the report, 9 percent of children in OT care were harmed in the year ending June 2023. The Minister for Children says it's not good enough; while the Children and Young People's… Read more Video, Audio

5:54 PM.A Ngatea pensioner who climbed Taranaki Maunga to mark his 90th birthday at the weekend says it was a 'humbling' experience. David Baker is believed to be the oldest individual to have ever summited… Read more Video, Audio

5:46 PM.Increasingly warmer seas could see new types of marine mammals beaching on our country's shores. An eight metre juvenile fin whale got stuck on a sandbar in the shallow estuary at Moncks Bay in… Read more Video, Audio

5:35 PM.More children than ever are being harmed under the watch of the very agency supposed to protect them. Oranga Tamariki's "Safety in Care" report shows 9% of children in its care were harmed in the year… Read more Video, Audio

5:28 PM.The clock's ticking for schools to introduce cellphone bans by the start of term two, but it's an assignment one Principal's dreading. The National government's banning cellphones in schools to help… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 PM.Sport with Jonty Dine [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6345797081112 Read more Video, Audio

5:16 PM.Some shoppers struggling to cover their grocery bills have found a work around that lets them use buy now pay later services to cover food and other essentials at stores that don't actually offer the… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.Police are asking the public for help after a man was found dead at a Dunedin property this morning. Emergency services were called to the scene on Hillary St in Liberton at around 9:00am. The… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.A series of violent smash and grabs at a jewellery store chain, including one in the police minister's electorate and a stabbing at an Auckland supermarket marred the weekend. In two separate… Read more Video, Audio

6:08 PM.Tomorrow will mark a year since many West Aucklanders were fleeing their homes as a month's worth of rain fell across the city in less than an hour. 

Some were able to stay with family or friends… Read more Audio