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📢 Sixteen Black Caps are vying for a huge pay day when the IPL player auction is held on Tuesday night.
Black Caps chase millions in IPL auction
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December 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
📢 Finance Minister Nicola Willis is doubling down on her "disciplined" plan for returning the books to surplus - despite new forecasts delaying it by yet another year.
Willis working on 'disciplined' plan for returning books to surplus
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December 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
📢 The government's financial position is looking worse for longer with a delay in getting to surplus and bigger deficits, according to new Treasury forecasts.
Government financial position weaker than expected in May budget
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December 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
📢 The country's main engineering industry group has joined warnings that changes to electrical safety rules create a new hazard.
Engineers warn that changes to electrical safety rules create new hazard
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December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
'How can it happen here?': Mourners collect belonging left after Bondi attack
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December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
📢 This year's annual survey by the NZ Game Developer's Association put the sector's pre-tax income at $759 million
NZ video game sector up 38 percent while global industry falling behind
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December 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
📢 The testing got underway in Wellington on Monday, and will be rolled out to the rest of the country next year.
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First day of roadside drug testing in Wellington gets positive feedback, police say
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December 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
📢 The testing got underway in Wellington on Monday, and will be rolled out to the rest of the country next year.
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📢 Minister Chris Bishop says currently much of the government's reform work spans multiple agencies.
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New ministry to combine housing, transport and environment
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December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
📢 Minister Chris Bishop says currently much of the government's reform work spans multiple agencies.
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📢 A world class professional golf tournament will return to Auckland for the first time in more than 20 years with the launch of the Japan-Australasia Championship.
Auckland gets professional golf tournament after 20 year hiatus
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December 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
📢 Worldline NZ's latest data shows spending was highest on the West Coast with the biggest decline in Wellington.
Consumer spending slightly below expectations for first half of month
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December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
📢 The fire, located between Waitōtara township and Waiinu Beach settlement, started on Monday afternoon and is yet to be contained.
South Taranaki fire spreads to 100 hectares
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December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Industrial fire burning in Wiri in south Auckland
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December 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
📢 Reserve Bank governor Anna Breman issued a statement about current financial conditions which had gone "beyond" the RBNZ's recent projection for interest rates.
Reserve Bank governor sends message markets gone too far
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December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Man charged with killing fellow prisoner
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December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
📢 New Zealand's housing market slowed sharply in November, with a big downturn in sales numbers compared to the month before.
Where did house buyers go in November?
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December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
📢 Police say the officers, who have been armed, will stay while they continue to assess the deadly attack at Bondi that killed 15 people.
NZ police to guard Jewish community locations following Bondi attack
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December 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
📢 The Labour government put the reforms in place after the Christchurch terror attack in 2019.
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Labour leader Chris Hipkins says New Zealand should not dilute gun reforms
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December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
📢 The Labour government put the reforms in place after the Christchurch terror attack in 2019.
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📢 Twins Cam and Fin Melville Ives said they felt proud to wear the new uniforms, which they modelled with skier Mischa Thomas.
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New Zealand's Winter Olympics team uniforms revealed
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December 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📢 Twins Cam and Fin Melville Ives said they felt proud to wear the new uniforms, which they modelled with skier Mischa Thomas.
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📢 The Labour leader says there will be tensions within the ACT-National-New Zealand First coalition heading into a campaign.
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Chris Hipkins says Seymour, Peters will be 'nightmare' for National in lead up to election
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December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
📢 The Labour leader says there will be tensions within the ACT-National-New Zealand First coalition heading into a campaign.
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📢 Kororipo Pā, at Kerikeri Basin, was the stage for some of the most formative events in the history of Aotearoa.
Parliament bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi
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December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
📢 Along with dogs and cats, the family-run business has transported poultry, spiders, and carried ant farm to an Invercargill school.
Paws on board: Inside the Pet Bus as it travels the country
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December 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
📢 Hopes are high for a bumper kākāpō breeding season - and RNZ will be there to cover it.
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Our Changing World: Return of The Kākāpō Files
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December 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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📢 A worker at a special court that helps Auckland's homeless who have committed low-level crimes turn their lives around, says she is seeing increasing levels of distress in recent months.
Homelessness in Auckland more than doubles to 940 people in year to September - survey
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December 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
📢 Seifert hit a century in his first game in six weeks after a broken finger caused him to miss the Black Caps' latest T20 series.
Tim Seifert blazes to a Big Bash century for Melbourne Renegades
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December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📢 Documents show concerns raised by the Transport Agency, Police, Heritage NZ, and the NZ Alpine Club about people potentially parking off-road or on the state highways to avoid fees.
Agencies worried parking fees at DOC hotspots will see unsafe roadside parking instead
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December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM