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Fog affects Auckland flights, severe weather for South Island
12:16 PM.Fog in Auckland is disrupting flights in and out of the city again today.
Air New Zealand says 23 regional, turboprop, flights have been canceled so far today... but its domestic and international… Read more Audio
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Cordons remain in place in Levin
12:10 PM.About 80 people in Levin are still out of their homes today, as the police continue to negotiate with a man involved in a self-harm-related incident.
Bledisloe Street residents have told RNZ there… Read more Audio
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NASA's James Webb telescope revealing universe's history
12:51 PM.NASA has just released spectacular new images taken from the James Webb telescope of a "cartwheel galaxy" which is almost 500-millon-light-years away. Audio
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NZ disappointed nuclear weapon states are upgrading arsenals
12:40 PM.New Zealand is disappointed powerful countries are spending hundreds-of-billions of dollars on nuclear new-clear weapons ... saying they're ignoring key international treaties to get rid of their… Read more Audio
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Midday Rural News for 4 August 2022
12:36 PM.News from the rural farming sector for 4 August 2022 Read more Audio
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Midday Business News for 4 August 2022
12:18 PM.News from the business sector for 4 August 2022 Read more Audio
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Midday Sports News for Thursday 4 August 2022
12:18 PM.Midday sports News for 4 August 2022.
Paul Coll struggled to articulate what it means to capture Commonwealth Games gold - but the Greymouth squash star says it's probably his biggest career… Read more Audio
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New Zealand's Hamish Kerr secured the top spot
12:17 PM.A golden jump ... New Zealand's Hamish Kerr secured the top spot in the High Jump at his first Commonwealth Games on Thursday morning.
The 25-year-old athlete, described himself as the kid that… Read more Audio
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Builders hopeful construction supplies price problems will be fixed
12:10 PM.Builders broadly agree with the Commerce Commission's findings that law changes are needed to fix a lack of competition.
In the past year, StatsNZ said the cost of construction materials have gone up… Read more Audio
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Tasman mayor responds to climate change adaptation plan
12:44 PM.Sea level rise and coastal erosion are threatening homes and infrastructure around the country, and councils have warned for years they could not afford to deal with those issues without Government… Read more Audio
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Midday Rural News for 3 August 2022
12:37 PM.News from the rural farming sector for 3 August 2022 Audio
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Midday Sports News for 3 August 2022
12:28 PM.Midday sports News for 3 August Pole-vaulter Imogen Ayris says a change in approach after a disappointing World Champs paid off off as she claimed a bronze medal at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
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Midday Business News for 3 August 2022
12:20 PM.News from the business sector for 3 August 2022 Audio
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The country's first plan to cope with climate change
12:15 PM.The government has just released the country's first National Adaptation Plan -- and it's focused on getting communities talking about how climate change will affect them and what they should do to… Read more Audio
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Unemployment remains near record lows, wage growth is high
12:11 PM.The unemployment rate has stayed around its record low - at 3.3 percent - for the June quarter, according to Stats NZ.
Wages are rising, they're up 3.4 percent over the last year.
But that's still… Read more Audio
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Voting draws to a close in Cook Islands
12:56 PM.Voting in the general election in Cook Islands is drawing to a close.
The race involves the Democratic Party led by Tina Browne, the Cook Islands Party led by the current Prime Minister Mark Brown… Read more Audio
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New Zealand has reaffirmed its commitment to Samoa
12:46 PM.New Zealand has reaffirmed its commitment to Samoa by giving 15 million dollars to the country's climate change response, and an additional 12 million towards rebuilding Apia's Savalalo Market.
The… Read more Audio
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Andrew Jeffcoat adds to the golden swimming haul in Birmingham
12:43 PM.Andrew Jeffcoat won in the Men's 50 metre backstroke final this morning, adding to Lewis Clareburt's two golds, as well as those of paraswimmers Sophie Pascoe and Joshua Willmer.
Former commonwealth… Read more Audio
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New health workforce plan still reliant on foreign workers
12:20 PM.A health workforce expert says the government's newly announced staffing strategy will do little to ease New Zealand's reliance on foreign trained and born medical staff.
The new plan - announced… Read more Audio
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Corrections chief custodial officer discusses inmate standoff
12:15 PM.Five youth inmates remain on the roof of Hawke's Bay Regional Prison where there is considerable damage to the facility.
Projectiles were thrown at staff when the standoff began yesterday afternoon.
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Extra security deployed to Hawke's Bay Regional Prison
12:14 PM.Five youth inmates remain on the roof of Hawke's Bay Regional Prison where there is considerable damage to the facility.
Projectiles were thrown at staff when the standoff began yesterday afternoon.
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Homes and lives teeter after slip in Wellington
12:45 PM.Two homes and two families in Wellington are teetering on the edge, after a slip last week left their houses unsafe to enter.
They are facing an uncertain future after the council 'Red Stickered'… Read more Audio