Mary Wilson

Former American filmmaker Mathew VanDyke who fought to overthrow Libya's Muammar Gadaffi is now recruiting US veterans to fight Islamic State. Audio

The struggle to bring aid to the worst hit islands in Vanuatu. At least three people feared dead in a small plane crash near Wanaka and X factor fallout as judges are sacked. Audio

The government moves quickly to tighten controls on high purity 1080. Solid Energy warns more job cuts are inevitable and Marvin Gaye's family wins the copyright fight over the hit song Blurred Lines.

The American Civil Liberties Union files a major new lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency's mass interception of Americans' international Internet communications. This comes at the same… Audio

The Labour leader is accusing the Prime Minister of being tricky, when discussing mass collection versus mass surveillance by the Government Communications Security Bureau. Audio

More now on the milk powder poisoning blackmail threat. The Government says the country's trading partners have been told about it. Audio

The Transport Minister, Simon Bridges, is making no bones about the fact that the Government has made a multi-million dollar investment in Northland because it wants to win the by-election. Audio

Auckland councillors are being called on to urgently decide the fate of a 5-hundred-year-old kauri and a 3-hundred-year-old rimu that have been at the centre of a two-year legal crusade. Audio

Bill Wallace heads the Ban 1080 Party. He's just found out about the threats. Audio

The Government says it has been as upfront and honest as it could have been about the blackmail poison threat from 1080 opponents its labelled eco-terrorists. Audio

An angry Dean Barker has ended his 20 year career with Team New Zealand but says he'd still love to compete in the next America's Cup. Audio

The latest now on the threat by blackmailers to poison infant and other milk formula by the end of the month unless New Zealand stops dropping 1080 in the bush. Audio

Anna Mc Dougall desperately wants more information about the formula scare and says she would have liked to have known much earlier. Audio

The president of Federated Farmers William Rolleston says he doubts anyone could get past the security at milk powder plants to contaminate products. Audio

Michael Barnett heads the Infant Formula Exporters association. He didn't find out about the threat until a month ago but is not angry about the delay. Audio

Our political editor Brent Edwards was at the news conference - he's with us now. Audio

Blackmailers are threatening to poison infant and other milk formula by the end of the month unless New Zealand stops dropping 1080 in the bush. Audio

Latest on milk formula scare from news conference; Latest from Brent Edwards; Infant formula exporters say 1080 threat devastating; Federated Farmers has more; Worried mother, Anna Mc Dougall on milk… Audio

Will new bridges in Northland give voters new incentives to vote National? John Key is not ruling out mass collection of data by the GCSB but denies mass surveillance and the Kaipara man killed by a… Audio

High winds in Wellington have blown three shipping containers off the wharf. Audio