Earlier: Housing Minister Phil Twyford gives Kiwibuild update

Earlier: Salvation Army launches mobile trucks to combat predatory ones which charge up to 800% interest on food and clothes.

Earlier: The Canadian professor who became an internet sensation with a cult-like following has given his first performance in Auckland.

Earlier: A new political poll has brought more bad news for National leader Simon Bridges, showing the party down four points to 42 per cent and his personal polling also down a point to just 6 per cent.

Earlier: Internet giants face surprise New Zealand tax

Earlier: New Zealand's biggest seafood exporter Sanford has been having issues getting salmon exports to China cleared through Chinese ports

Earlier: Weddings bells could be chiming for former bachelor Art Green and his beau Matilda Rice today, with speculation a secret island wedding is on the cards.

Earlier: SkyCity convention centre had Grenfell Tower-like cladding: $25m to remove

Malcolm Rewa is on trial for a third time, accused of murdering Susan Burdett in 1992.

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Earlier: Wakefield residents who were forced to flee their homes to escape the fire risk could be allowed to return tonight, officials say.

Earlier: More than 20 years since he last faced trial over the killing, Malcolm Rewa walked into an Auckland courtroom today with his shoulders hunched and a ring hanging from his neck. For the third time the rapist stands before a jury accused of murdering Susan Burdett.

Earlier: Emergency teams are planning for a tricky day ahead as they hope to contain the Tasman blaze with stronger winds forecast today.

Prohibited activities include those where metal meets stone and that can generate sparks.

Earlier: Fire crews brace for at least 48 hours of hard firefighting ahead

Earlier: Hundreds of evacuated Tasman residents are entering a fourth day of uncertainty about the fate of their homes and livestock as a massive blaze near Nelson continues to burn.

Fire, police, and Civil Defence have reassured residents that evacuation was not a decision taken lightly, and they would get people back into their homes as soon as it was safe.

Earlier:Firefighters have been working overnight to contain a devastating blaze in the Tasman district which has burned large tracts of land, destroyed homes and killed livestock.

Earlier: Man uses digger to save home from Tasman blaze

Earlier: Helicopters are attacking the 1870ha fire, spread across 20km, from the air as Civil Defence declares a state of emergency and more than 170 homes have been evacuated or self-evacuated.

Earlier: More than 100 homes have been evacuated or self-evacuated with people registering with the Civil Defence Centre in Wakefield.

Earlier: Hundreds of people have gathered before dawn at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi.

Earlier: Pōwhiri welcomes PM Jacinda Ardern at Waitangi

Replay: Q&A with with infectious diseases expert Dr Siouxsie Wiles

PM Jacinda Ardern talks to Kerre McIvor about the White Island recovery mission

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