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12:15 PM.Climate scientists warned the ski industry two decades that climate change could threaten the viability of some skifields.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts is in voluntary administration after a string of poor… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.An east coast community provider's painted a picture of poverty as families continue to grapple with the rising cost of living.

Food prices aren't showing any sign of dropping, as the country heads… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.To Taiwan, where officials are this week showcasing the nation's independence, democracy, military, and globally critical semiconductor factories.

The country of about 24 million people seeks… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Ngāti Rangi, mana whenua at Ruapehu, says its dignity and rangatiratanga has been affronted because the mountain's skifield operator's didn't warn them the business could close.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Māori advocates are outraged the Police Minister's suggesting law changes to allow officers to keep taking photos of people they deem suspicious, and it has set back promises of any transformational… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.An alarming new report on the state of the marine environment shows the oceans are rising faster, becoming hotter, more acidic, dirtier, and that is all making it harder for taonga creatures to… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.The Electricity Authority says New Zealand needs to increase generation capacity by 400-500 megawatts each year 'til 2050.

The Electricity Authority has released a consultation paper, laying out… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.The decline in the housing market is continuing with no sign of the traditional Spring uptick.

September's Real Estate Institute's house price index, which measures the changing value of properties… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Kiwirail has geotechnical engineers on-site today to investigate subsidence on a section of the Western rail line near New Lynn station in Auckland.

Passenger trains are running at a reduced… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.Climate activists who caused significant delays during Wellington's morning rush hour today plan to continue their disruptive protests, until the Government responds to their call to restore passenger… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Hackers have posted stolen patient information on the dark web.

The names, addresses and other personal information of up to 450,000 people was stolen in the cyber-attack on Pinnacle Midlands Health… Read more Audio

12:41 PM.The Government's proposed a farm-level emissions pricing scheme to be introduced from 2025, which will have farmers paying for methane and carbon dioxide emissions.

Professor of physics at Canterbury… Read more Audio

12:17 PM.Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia's barrage of missile attacks across Ukraine was in retaliation for Saturday's destructive explosion on the only bridge to Russian-occupied Crimea.

President… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.The government wants farmers to pay for agricultural emissions for carbon dioxide and methane from 2025.

It will be a farm-level split gas approach, but the industry is not happy with the proposal.

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