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Updated: 7:47am - Aucklanders are set to pay more to tackle major long-standing problems in the city, even as the mayor claims he's keeping his word on rates rises.

Updated: 7:39am - Repairing a Middlemore Hospital building while patients remain inside will be very stressful for patients and staff, a junior doctors' union warns.

Updated: 7:12am - A 51-year-old man of Bau Road, Nausori is a free man as the Nausori Magistrates Court has acquitted him of the charge of causing death by dangerous driving.

Updated: 6:48am - Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama was visibly upset yesterday during the National Disaster Management Office briefing on Tropical Cyclone Keni. And he had every reason to be upset.

Updated: 6:54am - A 25-year-old woman charged with conversion has been remanded by the Suva Magistrates Court.

Updated: 6:45am - Police Commissioner, Sitiveni Qiliho has confirmed that a 4-year-old boy is admitted at Nadi Hospital after falling from a double storey building at the Nadi Technical College.

Updated: 6:41am - Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama stresses that correct information on the number of houses affected after the floods and Cyclone Keni is important as he does not want abuse of government funds.

Updated: 8:18am - Thousands of Aucklanders have endured a second bitterly cold night without heating or light as temperatures plunged to 8°C.

Updated: 6:58am - Villagers on Kadavu are still experiencing water problems following the devastation caused by Cyclone Keni.

Updated: 6:53am - People in Fiji are drying out and cleaning up after two cyclones and massive flooding in just under two weeks.