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In a surprising turnaround, the Kansas City Chiefs emerged victorious at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.

The Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22, capturing their third title in five years.

Grammy-winning R&B icon Usher also performed at half-time- with surprise collaborators Alicia Keys, Ludacris, Lil Jon and H.E.R.

SiriusXM Ben Harlum said plenty of celebrities turned up to watch the game, including Taylor Swift, who flew halfway around the world to watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.

"The Chiefs fans were loving it, she seemed to have a great time in the suite and on the field as part of a victory celebration for her boyfriend, Travis."

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Auckland Transport's not impressed by heat causing train cancellations.

Some services were canned on the Eastern, Western and Southern line today, after track steel reached 48 degrees in parts.

AT's Stacey van der Putten says people deserve better than a network that can't run at capacity on a mildly warm summer day.

"What we're seeing over recent weeks is what I'd call a reliability failure- that's been pretty consistent. Of course it's when everybody's coming back to work, coming back to school, it does have a huge impact on trust and confidence in our network."

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The Police Commissioner says demand for police to respond to social harm is displacing their ability to attend other jobs.

The briefing to the new minister included proposing going less to family harm callouts, which have risen 80 percent in the past 10 years.

Commissioner Andrew Coster says officers would like to be doing more work only police can do.

He says a managed withdrawal from harm callouts is the only way to free them up.

"The ideal situation here would be that others step up to deal with this demand, because arguably- help should be available in some of these situations."

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The Government has revealed their replacement for Three Waters.

Prime Minister Chris Luxon says the existing legislation will be scrapped by the end of next week, as part of the 100-day plan.

It will be replaced by two new bills within the next 18 months, with guidance from a Technical Advisory Group to help shape water plans.

ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says dismantling this system and setting up a new one will put extra strain on taxpayers.

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Barnaby Joyce has admitted to making 'a mistake', after a compromising video of him on a Canberra street surfaced.

In the video, Joyce had fallen on the ground off a planter box and was swearing into his phone after  a long parliamentary sitting day.

The former deputy prime minister has blamed the mix of alcohol and prescription medication for his actions last Friday.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says several people have spoken up to defend Joyce after the incident.

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The Kansas City Chiefs have beaten the San Francisco 49ers 25 to 22 to win Super Bowl LVIII in an overtime thriller in Las Vegas.

The Chiefs are the ninth team to go back to back and defend their title.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine explains further.

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Tauranga residents were asked to work from home today to avoid traffic congestion.

A failed stormwater drain caused a cavity underneath State Highway 29A, forcing the road to close near Oropi.

NTZA acting Bay of Plenty maintenance and operations manager, Roger Brady, says he's hoping the road will open tomorrow morning.

"We're hugely fortunate in that that piece of road wasn't constrained by services, there were no water pipes running down the side of it, there were no gas pipelines, there were no streets in the way."

A lane of Totara St was also closed, and should reopen tomorrow.

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Dunedin South's Countdown has now closed for 48 hours - after more rats have been found.

The supermarket made headlines last month when staff told the Otago Daily Times about a rat infestation.

Employees said they feared the public could have bought contaminated food.

Woolworth's stores director Jason Stockill told Heather du Plessis-Allan they've pro-actively closed - to let pest-control workers thoroughly check the store.

He says MPI and Rentokil have confirmed they're not nesting in the store and it's not a food safety issue.

Stockill says the rats are coming from outside - and Rentokil will be figuring out how they're getting in.

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Transport Minister Simeon Brown says he's keen to help Auckland Council bring in tolls and time of use charging, what many of us would consider congestion charging.

Councillor Richard Hills is the chair of the Planning Committee and he told Heather Du Plessis-Allan that the they hope a congestion charge is not a revenue tool it is a 'behaviour change tool'.

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Economists at our biggest bank expect the Reserve Bank will increase the Official Cash Rate.

ANZ's changed its forecast, now predicting 25 basis point hikes in February and in April.

That would take the OCR to six percent -- from its current 5.5.

ANZ chief economist Sharon Zollner told Heather du Plessis Allan that the Reserve Bank said it was very close to hiking it again in November.

She says since then, a series of small but consistent surprises suggest inflation will take long to get back to target.

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