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Auckland businesses are gearing up to reap the benefits of Auckland City Rail Link, which officially opens on Sunday. The $5.5 billion project has taken 10 years to build, and caused significant disruption for businesses along the route. Northern Line Bar and Social, on the corner of Beresford Square and Pitt St, has seen the lows and is now hoping to see the highs. Owner Craig Wright spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

An Edwardian mansion could be on its way to demolition in Christchurch, unless someone is willing to take it off a local developer's hands. The sweetener? You can have the house for free. The catch? You have to be able to move the four-bedroom, 320 metre-square structure. M Group Properties director of operations, Sean McCrory spoke to John Campbell.

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Tomorrow marks 25 years since the September 11 attacks on the United States. New Zealand journalist Lauren Quaintance was reporting from within the police cordon that day. Lauren spoke to John Campbell.

A pensioner whose welfare payments were wrongly suspended says he has no confidence it won't happen again. The social development ministry has admitted it got it wrong after a review found more than 30,000 payments were incorrectly stopped. Political reporter Lauren Crimp reports.

The New Zealand pork industry says current labelling frequently makes imported pork look like a local product, with extremely small labelling hidden on the back. Harris Farms is among a small handful of New Zealand brands that only sells bacon and ham made from free-farmed, locally-grown pigs. Its sales and marketing manager Leon Powell spoke to John Campbell.

Police are continuing to investigate the suspected theft of digital files from a company running clinical trials. Hackers reportedly stole the data from Dunedin-based ZenTech and published some of the files online. The private company works with Health NZ, but the government agency says its systems are unaffected. ZenTech says it has brought in experts to assess the nature and scope of the attack. The company declined a request for an interview. Associate professor Ian Welch heads up Victoria University's cybersecurity programme and spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

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At least 20,000 tamariki have a parent in prison. According to Treasury analysis of Stats New Zealand data, without the right support, they're 10 times more likely to end up in the justice system themselves. In a New Zealand first, charity Pillars Ka Pou Whakahou will be piloting a new support role with three whanau navigators at the Manukau District Court. The five-year pilot will see these navigators work alongside families and children following the sentencing of a parent, with the hope that more roles like these will be rolled out across Aotearoa. The programme development, youth and research lead Corrina Thompson spoke to John Campbell.