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Be the best chase scene of all times. Lets see what is going on on the roads. 15 south bound will take y leads in a Homicide Investigation, that happening earlier this morning. Lets bring in craig where it all started with an argument at a bus stop and ended in a deadly shooting. Started at 12 45 this morning. There were two men at a bus stop. While they were there, they were approached by m and there was some type of argument. That argument they are telling us that it included what police are c...

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

A group of the country’s top public law academics is urging the Government to change an entrenching provision in the controversial Three Waters legislation

How do governments and societies decide when you're old enough for certain rights and privileges?

The Ardern government remains determined, above all, to suppress public discussion of the far-right political roots of the March 15, 2019 terror attack, in which 51 people were killed at two mosques in Christchurch.

NEW guidance on managing patients with respiratory symptoms will “severely limit” the number of people who can be seen face to face by GPs at a…

NEW guidance on managing patients with respiratory symptoms will “severely limit” the number of people who can be seen face to face by GPs at a…

LIKE Professor Sir John Curtice, I am very frustrated with the cumbersome bureaucracy surrounding the current Covid vaccine programme ("Anger over Covid helpline after 14-week vaccine wait", The Herald May 18). What is the point in having an advice helpline that won’t help? I was informed that there was no trace of my details anywhere. The operator refused to give me a number so that I could contact NHS Tayside – “I might give you the wrong number." And finally: “The 12-week number ...

Who guards the guards? Experts call for oversight of New Zealand’s terror laws Tess McClure in Christchurch © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Kai Schwörer/Getty Images In the early hours of an October morning in 2007, teams of armed police stormed Rūātoki, a lush green valley in the North Island of New Zealand. Equipped with new anti-terrorism powers, they stopped school buses, set up roadblocks, raided houses, arrested 18 people across the country, and detained man...

Oversight office urged after moves to expand counter-terrorism laws Ben Strang © RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod The government is being asked to consider appointing an independent person to review how counter-terrorism laws are operated in New Zealand. © Provided by Radio New Zealand No caption An office looking at the implementation of security policy is important as New Zealand becomes more securitised, a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland says. Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod...