Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday news fakes for Friday, the thirteenth of September. A tough day for some in the South Island, with heavy snow affecting roads and causing power outages. Thousands in Central Otago are without power and State Highway eighty five between Kyburn and Palmerston, the Crown Range Road and Milford's Homer Tunnel are all closed. Some farms are under almost eight centimeters of snow in the midst of spring. Lamming met Service meteorologist John Law says Central Otago should expect heavy snow until around lunchtime before it begins to ease. However, it would also be keeping a heavy snow worn into parts of the inland areas of the country. High Country with the heaviest snow for expected today to be above about five hundred meters. State Highway six from Heart to Makarora and State Highway eighty from Lake Pukake to Mount Cook are also closed. Donald Trump says the will be no rematch with Kamala Harris. There was general consensus following Wednesday's debate that Vice President Harris dominated Trump. The Democratic candidate is calling for another debate, but the former president is having none of it. Here he is spouting at his first post debate rally in Arizona.
When a prize fighter loses a fight, You've seen a lot of fights, right, the first words out of that fighter's mouth is I wanna rematch. I want to rematch. And that's what she said, I want to rematch.
Many political critics agree that Harris had the better performance in Wednesday's debate. In this Country, Labour MP four Mongre lemoaninger Lydia Sosenni has been diagnosed with breast cancer. So Senni will go on leave from Tuesday to undergo surgery and recover. The Health Minister's unphased about General Practice Owners funding concerns. The General Practice Owners Association has filed a complaint with the Commerce Commission over what it's are unfair and illegal funding contracts. It's warned that more people could die in emergency department waiting rooms unless the government urgently invests in primary care. Shane Rettie says he met with jenpro yesterday to discuss the issue.
Look, the Comments Commission will determine that that this has been standard policy for a number of years as nothing new to have negotiating around this year has happened, so we'll see what the Commerce Commission that makes of them.
House prices are picking up in some parts of the country and continuing to slide in others. Latest figures from the Real Estate Institute show the national median house price has dropped zero point six percent in the year to August. Business reporter Michael Sergel runs through the numbers.
Auckland is pushing down the national median price, recording a four percent drop. It's a different story in several other regions, though, with Canterbury recording a zero point five percent rise and Wellington recording a three point nine percent increase. While more properties are being listed, fewer properties are being sold.
To Sport, Football Ferns coach Klimkova has left the role. A new playoff format will feature in Super Rugby next season, with the eleven team competition will culminate in a six team final series rather than eight. With the Rebels now defunct. Winger Asha Letti e Inger will return from a knee injury for the Black Ferns and Sunday's rugby Test against England at Twickenham and Olympic high jump gold medallist Hamish Kurr wants to leap two point four meters next year after winning at the Games with his personal best two point three to six. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.