In a fiery public meeting, Southlanders have hit back at promises of a less resource-intensive Datagrid factory - and pledged to keep fighting tooth and nail against the plans. Earthworks began this week at the site of the five-billion-dollar 'AI factory' in Makarewa, which developers said on Tuesday would use less water and generators than first planned. Otago Southland report Katie Todd reports.

A nurse practitioner working with people experiencing homelessness in Wellington says she's seeing the consequences of people being discharged from prison and hospital without adequate plans for housing or on going care. Serena Moran spoke to John Campbell.

The repeated failure of Tauranga City Council to act on more than over two decades of warnings about the risk of a landslide hitting the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park have been laid bare in a devastating independent review.

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The number of hot days in the country's largest city could at least double by 2050, and heatwaves will be longer and more frequent. That's according to research just published by Auckland Council, which found the number of hot nights will also increase. Health and building researchers say prolonged heat harms and even kills people, and at the moment we are not ready for it. Climate change correspondent Kate Newton reports.

The controversial, and much disputed Pegasus West housing development, roughly thirty minutes north of Christchurch, has been declined fast-track referral.

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