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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 34m

📢 National is promising to take away the right to silence in child murder cases if re-elected.

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Election 2026: National proposes exception to right to silence in child murder cases

Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 34m

📢 Labour is promising to tip more money into two sport-focused programmes as part of its plan to reduce the time children spend on devices.

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Election 2026: Labour releases plan to get kids off devices through new sport funding

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h

📢 The nurses union says a doctor being called out of retirement after a clinic’s last GP resigned last month shows how appalling health shortages are.

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Doctor’s callback from retirement reveals depth of health crisis: Nurses union

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h

📢 As the Herald sat in the passenger seat of his ute during a patrol, the senior proactive manager with Auckland Council’s Animal Management revealed how har

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Auckland’s Animal Management workers: Exposing the abuse, misconceptions at the other end of the leash

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h

📢 The 40-minute delay at last night’s Olivia Dean concert in Auckland did little to dampen the spirits of the 40,000-strong crowd – but the flow-on effects b

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Olivia Dean concert: Auckland fans report being stranded after late finish

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h

📢 When police searched Ben Mayo’s house, they found hundreds of pre-packed and vacuum-sealed bags of magic mushrooms, weighing almost 12kg, in his wardrobe,

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Pāpāmoa man Ben Mayo sentenced for possession, cultivation, and supply of magic mushrooms

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h

📢 A teenager who died after her car crashed into Tauranga Harbour has been remembered for her “bright light” and “beautiful spirit”.

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Maddison Aitken remembered after car crashes into Tauranga Harbour

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h

📢 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon picked a “challenging” election date, despite the Electoral Commission favouring two other options, newly released advice

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Prime Minister passed over easier election dates, advice reveals

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h

📢 Act is promising to commit $400 million over four years to retain more doctors in New Zealand, attract them from overseas and incentivise offering more app

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Election 2026: Act to spend $400m to retain more doctors, incentivise more appts

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h

📢 Pope Leo XIV left hospital to enthusiastic cheers and applause from well-wishers and returned home to the Vatican on Saturday, four days after undergoing s

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Smiling Pope returns to Vatican after cancer surgery

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h

📢 Six weeks after giving birth, Alecia Sanderson started getting headaches that were so severe she was unable to look after her baby without additional help

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ACC treatment injury claim over Alecia Sanderson’s death rejected by court

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h

📢 The closure of Gloriavale Christian School for student safety reasons would be unlawful, and an overuse of state power on a religious and cultural minority

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Documents detail Gloriavale school’s fight to stay open

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h

📢 A Paraparaumu pizza shop owner was sentenced to 10 months’ home detention for more than half a million dollars in tax evasion.

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Paraparaumu Hell’s Pizza owner gets 10 months’ home detention for tax evasion

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h

📢 MetService says a looming tropical cyclone brewing in Cook Islands waters is currently “unlikely” to strike New Zealand. 👉[Ad] Dedicated-IP VPN: WireGuard/Hysteria2, 1h free trial, AU, JP, SG, ad blocking. vpn.photonmark.com

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Cook Islands cyclone Wati forms as settled weather continues across New Zealand

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h

📢 The promoter of Olivia Dean’s Auckland concert has thanked fans for their patience, after sound difficulties delayed last night’s show for more than 40 min

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Promoter thanks fans after sound problems plague Olivia Dean’s Auckland concert

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h

📢 How the world’s media reacted to the All Blacks’ 43-21 victory over Australia at Sydney’s Accor Stadium.

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All Blacks v Wallabies: World media reacts to crushing Bledisloe Cup victory in Sydney

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 23h

📢 Kiri Tamihere-Waititi has criticised the cross-party rebuke of Te Pāti Māori and Green MPs meeting and posing for photos with Mongrel Mob members at their

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Election 2026: Kiri Tamihere-Waititi calls backlash to Mongrel Mob hui ‘manufactured outrage’

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 17/10/2026

📢 A central North Island school is under fire after questioning on social media whether some absent kids are really sick.

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Waiouru Primary School criticised over ‘pretend sick’ attendance Facebook post

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 17/10/2026

📢 The All Blacks have been dealt a major blow ahead of the second test with second five-eighths Jordie Barrett ruled out of today’s clash in Sydney.

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All Blacks v Wallabies: Jordie Barrett ruled out of second Bledisloe Cup test

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Two years on from the mill closures, Raetihi is holding on but jobs in the small central North Island town are scarce, rents are high and shops are empty.

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Election 2026: Small town struggles – Raetihi battles Winstone mill closures aftermath

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Māori Wardens protecting Mauao say they have been spat at, had bottles and food thrown at them and dealt with repeated cordon breaches.

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Mauao Māori wardens spat at and pelted with bottles while guarding closed maunga

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Chilly nights and frosty starts are forecast for parts of the country this weekend, with mostly clear and sunny conditions during the day.

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Weather: Chilly nights and frosty starts forecast across parts of NZ

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Former schoolteacher Damian Patrick Young still maintains his innocence more than two years after he was jailed for indecently assaulting three students.

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Jailed schoolteacher Damian Young maintains innocence as Parole Board sets release date

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Labour has edged ahead of National in a new poll as support falls for both major parties and Opportunity hits the crucial 5% threshold.

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Election 2026: New poll shows Labour edging ahead of National as Opportunity hits 5%

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 The National Party’s Wellington Bays candidate Karuna Muthu stormed out of a candidates’ debate after accusing the organisers of “loaded” left-wing questio

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Election 2026: National Party candidate Karuna Muthu storms out of Wellington Bays candidates meeting

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 The National Party’s Wellington Bays candidate Karuna Muthu stormed out of a candidates’ debate after accusing the organisers of “loaded” left-wing questio

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Election 2026: National Party candidate Karuna Muthu storms out of Wellington Bays candidates meeting

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Labour has edged ahead of National in a new poll as support falls for both major parties and Opportunity hits the crucial 5% threshold.

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Election 2026: New poll shows Labour edging ahead of National as Opportunity hits 5%

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, under scrutiny over her legal credentials, appears to have acknowledged she failed the bar exam.

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Trump’s new press secretary Katie Zacharia defends ‘lawyer’ title

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 The Green Party co-leaders are seeking to move on from the party’s controversial visit with the Mongrel Mob alongside Te Pāti Māori.

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Frustrated Green co-leaders bat away questions on Mongrel Mob visit

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Newstalk ZB will be providing live commentary of the second Bledisloe Cup clash between the All Blacks and Wallabies from 6pm Saturday.

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All Blacks v Wallabies: Live Commentary of the second Bledisloe test on Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 The National Party has released a list of actions it would take to standardise rules across farms if re-elected.

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Election 2026: National’s steps to standardise farm rules – quarries, fertiliser, energy storage

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Stretched medical teams at Starship Children’s Hospital say they are working under “intolerable stress” trying to save the lives of children fighting cance

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Starship workers describe cancer ward crisis, medication errors and mental toll amid treatment delays

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 Students who undertake practical training for health and education jobs would receive a universal weekly payment of $380, under a proposed Green Party poli

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Election 2026: Greens want universal weekly payments for nurses, teachers, health workers

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026

📢 A shooting has left four people dead and others injured at an elementary school in the northwestern US state of Oregon, local police said on Thursday.

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Three children among four dead in mass shooting at Oregon elementary school

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Former Newstalk ZB Afternoons host Danny Watson has died after a short illness, surrounded by family.

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Former ZB host Danny Watson dies after a short illness

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 The father of a little girl who had surgery at Starship for a brain tumour before undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy has hit out at the politicising of

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Starship cancer delays: Father says using sick kids politically is cruel

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Kids were left distressed after an Auckland school bus driver allegedly made them get out in an unfamiliar area.

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Auckland Transport probe after school bus driver drops children in ‘unfamiliar’ area

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Some educators fear New Zealand may never catch up with demand for learning support – as thousands of children wait months for specialist services. Ministr 👉[Ad] Dedicated-IP VPN: WireGuard/Hysteria2, 1h free trial, AU, JP, SG, ad blocking. vpn.photonmark.com

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Educators concerned as kids facing year-long waits for learning support

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Kiwi broadcaster Hamish McKay and his family have had to leave their Auckland rental after a Tenancy Tribunal dispute over unpaid rent.

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Hamish McKay leaves Mission Bay rental after Tenancy Tribunal dispute

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Dog attacks across Auckland have fallen for the first time in six years, but the number of children being mauled continues to rise.

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Auckland dog attacks fall for first time in six years but incidents involving children rise

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 A breast cancer survivor wanted answers after her cancer was missed. A businessman wanted ideas on how to rebuild the economy.

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Election 2026: Herald leaders’ debate - Breast cancer advocate, businessman unimpressed by Hipkins and Luxon

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Police have released the name of the man who died after a crash on Takitimu Drive in Tauranga earlier this month. He was 48-year-old Warren Craig Cochrane,

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Tauranga man named after fatal Takitimu Drive crash

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Pigs being raised for slaughter were so hungry that they began attacking each other in search of food.

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Pig attacks, animals put down after 20 found in distress at Palmerston North farm

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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026

📢 Auckland FC forward Sam Cosgrove is starting to embrace his role as a villain after it was revealed he had already served his suspension for a red card in

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Auckland FC v Melbourne City: Sam Cosgrove defends ban served in National League

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