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12:43 PM.A group of protesters are picketing outside the Iranian embassy in Wellington, condemning the country's brutal crackdown of demonstrations against the regime.

The protesters say more than 240 people… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Te Whatu Ora, Health NZ has released its plans for the next two years as it figures out how to replace 20 individual district ones that existed under the previous structure.  

The interim plan has a… Read more Audio

12:18 PM.Soldiers on the front line in Ukraine say they have no idea why only the body of the American man killed alongside Dominic Abelen is being repatriated but not the New Zealander.

Joshua Jones was… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.An independent panel on local government thinks councils are losing the trust of their communities, and their consultation processes are excluding many people from participating. It comes amid three… Read more Audio

12:53 PM.A contingent of 10 police officers has arrived on a remote Island in Papua New Guinea - the scene of intense violence this week.

Clashes happened Monday after a dispute over a football match a month… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.Cruise ships are back, visiting ports around the country bringing with them more covid.

Health NZ is refusing to say if there are Covid-19 cases on the cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse currently docked… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.National population growth is predicted to slow to less than 1 percent each year for the next decade.

But what growth remains will be highest in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty.

And… Read more Audio

12:19 PM.Metservice has issued several severe weather warnings the first of which comes into force this evening.

Metservice says Aotearoa is heading into an unsettled period of weather with heavy rain kicking… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.Thousands of community nurses are striking again over their employers' inability to deliver pay parity after a year of failed negotiations.

Primary Health Care and Plunket nurses have the same… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.A New Zealand couple who were held in Iran for four months are extremely relieved to be free.

Iranian authorities stopped Topher Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray from leaving the country for four… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.The Prime Minister's electorate office in Morningside was attacked overnight.

Police are still at the scene investigating what happened, and say a 57-year-old woman has been arrested in relation to… Read more Audio

12:47 PM.The PNG Government has confirmed that at least 29 people have died after clashes on the Island of Kiriwina in the Trobriand archipelago.

Reports suggest it was a conflict between two groups after a… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.On the 9th of December almost three years ago, seven pilots took matters into their own hands to rescue people from the erupting Whakaari Island.

47 people were on the island that day, 22 of them… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.A new survey of students at the co-located Shirley Boys' and Avonside Girls' schools show many are being sexually harassed and assaulted.

Fewer than half the boys took part in the survey, but of… Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Green Party human rights and foreign affairs spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman is questioning whether Iran used a New Zealand couple as a pawn to stop the government speaking out on its human rights… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.A New Zealand couple held in Iran have escaped the country safe and well after being stuck there for months.

Topher Richwhite and his wife Bridget Thackwray had been unable to leave the Middle… Read more Audio