Top Stories for Friday 16 February 2024

It's Ramere - Friday, February the 16th Today on RNZ National... Firefighters have spent a second night fighting the huge blaze on Christchurch's Port Hill. We'll cross to our reporters at the cordon, and talk to the Emergency Management Minister mark Mitchell. We have reaction to yesterday's fatal police shooting of a man in Matamata-Piako.. Also Wellington's Council looks at where it will get the money to fix of the city's failing water pipes. And on the West Coast, the eleven-and-a-half kilometre Pike29 memorial track opens this morning