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The Invercargill City Council has just finished meeting to decide how an investigation into exactly what went wrong at Stadium Southland will proceed. Audio

Southlanders are being warned to expect more severe weather tonight, with a forecast for heavy showers, high winds with hail and thunder, and snow down to sea level. Audio

More bad weather on the way for southland, John Key stands by Rodney Hide and who will buy Eden Park's goal posts? Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio

In what should have been a watershed moment for the Maori Party this week - legislation repealing the contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act passed its first reading in Parliament. Audio

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

The family of a Masterton teenager, who died after taking methadone, is angry at the short sentence given to the man who supplied the drug. Audio

The latest survey of consumer confidence shows it has slipped, with a weak housing market and jump in unemployment weighing on sentiment. Audio

A New Zealand war hero, Morrie Stanley, credited with saving more than 100 Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War has died, aged 79. Audio

The police in Christchurch are getting daily calls about people posing as fake officials in order to burgle houses in quake-struck suburbs. Audio

The police in Christchurch are getting daily calls about people posing as fake officials in order to burgle houses in quake-struck suburbs. Audio

Heart attack rates have surged two weeks after the Canterbury earthquake, as aftershocks continue. Audio