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Anna Thomas and panellists Anna Dean and Dean Hall discuss attacks on hospital staff, Wellington becoming a billingual city by 2040 and they talk to Hilary Barry about #FluffFriday in response to… Audio

Anna Thomas and panellists Anna Dean and Dean Hall discuss e-sports and the Commonwealth Games. Audio

Early on Sunday morning a meteor shower will be visible, along with the glow of four distant planets which will be in alignment.

Mani Dunlop got the details on where and when to view the Eta… Audio

A construction worker was seriously injured by an electrical shock on George Street in central Dunedin this morning.

The street is currently undergoing upgrades with contractors carrying out work in… Audio

Midday News for Friday 6 May 2022 Audio

Duck hunters across the country are getting ready to take to the maimais on Saturday, which marks this season's duck shooting Opening Weekend.

Fish and Game council chair and duck hunter Ray Grubbs… Audio

Dangling high above a busy highway near Queenstown, geotech abseliers are drilling into an unstable 10,000 tonne block of rock to stop it from falling onto the road.

They are installing stabilising… Audio

New Zealand's chief censor, David Shanks, is stepping down from the job today after five years.

It's a confronting job for anyone, and he's likely to be remembered as the man who banned the video of… Audio

Emergency department staff at Christchurch Hospital are still being punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed by patients, despite efforts to stem the violence and aggression.

Recorded rates… Audio

The Department of Conservation's Great Walks bookings have opened this week - but many were full within just a couple of minutes.

Huts and campsites at the Kepler, Milford and Tongariro Northern… Audio

An independent review into the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Christchurch has found the school fosters a toxic learning environment where sexual harassment, bullying and harmful behaviour was… Audio

Ruapehu Civil Defence officials have spent part of this week working on plan if there is an eruption.

The central plateau volcano had its strongest tremors in two decades and plumes of steam were… Audio

A Bay of Plenty regional councillor says he has been racially abused relentlessly for wearing moko mataora - a Māori facial tattoo.

Stacey Te Pohue Rose received a blessing from a kaumātua and… Audio

Emergency department staff at Christchurch Hospital are continuing to be punched, spat on, sworn at and sexually harassed by patients, despite efforts to stem violence and aggression by patients.

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Many New Zealanders will be familiar with that tune - from the rural television Sunday staple - "A Dog's Show".

The sheepdog trial programme which ran for 15 years until the early 1990s was hosted by… Audio

The country's consumer watchdog is skeptical about a move by supermarket chain Countdown to freeze the price of some products.

From Monday, Countdown will freeze the price of more than 500 essential… Audio

Some of DOC's great walks booked out this week in just a matter of minutes.

Huts and campsites on the Kepler, Milford and the Tongariro Northern Circuit are all booked out for January.

Anecdotally… Audio