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5:35 PM.Nearly $1 million dollars aside for fitting out wheelchair taxis is sitting unused, as the window to claim it draws near. Taxi companies around the country have claimed just a quarter of the $1.2… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.The Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, has spent another day batting away claims of hypocrisy, with his previous comments about te reo and international travel coming back to haunt him. It comes the… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.14 New Zealand cricketers will go under the hammer in the Indian Premier League auction tonight - including rising star Rachin Ravindra. After a strong Cricket World Cup last month Ravindra has been… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.DOC has managed to get new walking tracks around Cathedral Cove open for summer, despite the hike down to the popular Coromandel beach being off the cards, for now. Extreme weather events in January… Read more Audio

5:07 PM.Six people have appeared in court today, charged over allegations Corrections staff were bribed with cash and sex to take contraband into Wellington's Rimutaka Prison. Of the six, three men have been… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.A new art installation by Auckland Council is hoping to revitalise one of Central Auckland's most infamous parks. The sculpture, called Waimahara, welcomes visitors to the lower end of Myers Park with… Read more Audio

5:27 PM.Although Aotearoa has some of the strictest quarantine regulations in the world, some travellers still try to sneak in items that are not allowed. In the past three months, quarantine officers seized… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.The White Ferns are in the midst of the final one-dayer against Pakistan in Christchurch and are aiming to make it three wins in a row. Today's day-night cricket match is the White Ferns' last game… Read more Audio

5:17 PM.New Zealand is being warned it is heading towards a tragedy if more is not invested in council infrastructure, and that people need to get used to double-digit rates increases. Local Government New… Read more Audio

5:14 PM.Wellingtonians have expressed mixed feelings about the axing of the capital's major transport project. The new government and local councils have met and agreed to put an end to Let's Get Wellington… Read more Audio

5:12 PM.Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is defending using taxpayer money to pay for his te reo Maori lessons when in Opposition. Mr Luxon has recently been critical of public servants being paid to learn… Read more Audio

5:06 PM.Cairns airport is underwater as heavy rain continues to lash Queensland's far north. The remnants of ex-tropical cyclone Jasper have caused widespread destruction. The main roads into Cairns were… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.Last Friday, Gore cousins Megan Whitehead and Hannah McCall shore 1,293 lambs in 8 hours - a new world record for a female shearing duo. Inside a "chocka" woolshed at Grant Bros farm, locals were… Read more Video, Audio

5:07 PM.'Looking to one of the best summers we've ever had' The Coromandel is just days away from being stitched back together.. with a bridge due to open any day - reconnecting one side of the peninsula to… Read more Video, Audio