Budget 2023 - Grant Robertson talks about 'returning to surplus' following today's announcement.

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NZ Herald brings you Budget 2023 with expert analysis and commentary. Video / NZ Herald

Inspector Dion Bennett, Acting Wellington District Commander, says police are expecting to recover the first bodies from the Loafers Lodge fire today. Video / George Heard

Focus Live:Fire and Emergency provide update on Loafers Lodge fire. Video / NZ Herald

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A driver has been stood down after broken glass from a bus window showed down on students from Howick College. Video / Supplied

Police work through list of suspects after Loafers Lodge fire, violent Ferry building attack stokes crime fears and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in paparazzi car chase but why not everyone’s buying it in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Director of Loafers Lodge, Greg Mein, talks to media. Video / NZ Herald

PM Chris Hipkins on the Loafers Lodge fire, the building codes and his uni mate who is missing after the blaze. Video / Mark Mitchell

Watch live: Detective Senior Sergeant Martin Friend will provide an update on an Auckland road rage incident that left a teenage girl with serious injuries after she was shot. Video / NZ Herald

Two people both dressed in black that fled on a black, farm-style motorbike are sought in relation to an aggravated robbery in Te Kuiti. Video / NZ Police

Loafers Lodge evacuee, Simon Hanify talks to the NZ Herald. Video / NZ Herald

At Ebbett Park School Hastings, sign language is nothing new. "Deafness is not seen as anything different,’ says principal Kate Medlicott. Video/Warren Buckland

Finance Minister Grant Robertson says “this is a Budget that’s appropriate for a time where people are struggling” at his annual photo opportunity Wednesday morning. Video / Mark Mitchell / Adam Pearse

A teenage girl was shot during a road rage incident in Auckland on Tuesday evening. Video / Supplied

Armed police could be seen surrounding the house in Ranui, west Auckland, where they are understood to be negotiating with an occupant to come out. Video / Supplied

Jordan from How To Dad has realised there is one thing sorely missing in the world record books- jandals! He and Kea Kids News reporter Mila have rounded up some very special athletes as Jordan sets the official jandal world record in racing, and they compete in the first-ever Jandal Olympics.

Store owners fight back against a group of armed youth robbing their store. Video / Supplied

A fire at the Loafers Lodge in Wellington has claimed the lives of several residents and displaced over 50. Video / NZ Herald

Representatives from NZ Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and Wellington City Council, as well as Chief Coroner Judge Anna Tutton, give an update on the Loafers Lodge fire.

Firefighters rushed to a two-storey house on Maungawhau Road in Epsom Tuesday morning. Video / Carson Bluck

National Party leader Christopher Luxon and deputy leader Nicola Willis speak at the scene of the tragic Wellington Hostel fire in Newtown. Video / Mark Mitchell

FENZ Deputy National Commander Brandan Nally gives an update on the Wellington hostel blaze where up to ten people may have died. Video / Mark Mitchell

PM Chris Hipkins, local MP Grant Robertson and Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau speak at the scene of the fatal Loafers Lodge hostel fire in Newtown. Video / Mark Mitchell

Wellington Fire and Emergency District Manager Nick Pyatt and Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau talk on the Loafers Lodge fire in central Wellington. Video / NZ Herald

A number of people are unaccounted for after a fire broke out at a hostel building in central Wellington overnight. Video / Adam Cooper / Wayne Bowater

Multiple people dead after large fire breaks out in Wellington hostel, Gore Mayor Ben Bell to learn his fate in a vote of no confidence and no charges laid yet in Ruakākā double homicide in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

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