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There will be little to celebrate at the National Party annual conference this weekend as the party still nurses its wounds from the 2020 election, Jane Patterson writes.

A group of more than 30 organisations have today called on the Greater Wellington Regional Council to impliment free public transport for community service cardholders and students in the region.

Opinion - Once a shining star of Cabinet, Kris Faafoi has gone to ground as pressure mounts in his immigration and justice portfolios, Newsroom's political editor Jo Moir writes.

New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard's Olympic campaign is over after she failed her three attempts in the snatch at the Tokyo Games tonight.

Simone Biles will compete in the balance beam final, the last women's event on the Tokyo Olympics gymnastics schedule, officials say.

With a future so bright she may need to keep wearing her shades, shot putter Maddison-Lee Wesche placed sixth in her final on Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics. Audio

Dame Valerie Adams has claimed a bronze medal in the shot put at the Tokyo Olympics.

Dame Valerie Adams has claimed a bronze medal in the shot put at the Tokyo Olympics

Dame Valerie Adams contests her fifth Olympic final, New Zealand eventers third heading into cross-country and Rio sailing bronze medallist in medal race.

Simone Biles has withdrawn from the vault and uneven bar apparatus finals at the Tokyo Olympics as the US gymnast continued to wrestle with mental health issues.

In today's sports news - Nyika wins quarterfinal bout, Adams and Wesche qualify in shot put, and Kerr soars through to Olympic high jump final

South Wairarapa Mayor Alex Beijen is disputing public criticism of the district council's rates rise.

Tokyo 2020 Day 7: Pacific Athletes- Who to watch today

Rower Emma Twigg chases gold, men's and women's eights to race in finals and Lewis Clareburt gets a second chance at taking home a medal.

The storm which caused widespread flooding across the top of the South Island has also had a devastating impact on mussel farms in the region.

With a gold medal around her neck, American Sunisa Lee called her family and cried with them in joy at a dream fulfilled.

A man has been sentenced to 19 months and two weeks in prison for helping bury a man's body in the central North Island and keeping quiet about the killing for two years.

Tokyo 2020 Day 6: Who to watch and when

A man imprisoned for helping to secretly dump Ricky Wang's body told police he didn't know of Wang's whereabouts, when in reality he'd seen him dead months earlier, a court has heard.