ONE NEWS. 01/09/2009

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:

Wanganui Police have made their first arrest under the controversial by-law banning gang patches from the centre of town.
Joe MacNamara (Civil Rights Protester); Insp Greg Hudson (Acting Police Area Commander); Eugene Ryder (Black Power Member); Michael Laws (Wanganui Mayor);

The fight to evict a group of State House tenants with gang connections from a Housing NZ house in Lower Hutt has cost taxpayers over $250,000.
Lesley Turk (Housing NZ Chief Executive); Elizabeth Hall (Farmer Crescent Families' Lawyer); Phil Heatley (Housing Minister);

Fiji is to be expelled from the Commonwealth at midnight tonight.

Protesters have tried to secure a last-minute postponement of the changing of Samoan driving laws to include driving on the left-hand side of the road.
Lealailepule Aiafi (Protester); Toleafoa Toailoa (Protester); Tuisugaletaua Sofara Aveau (Transport Minister);

Wildfires in California have put 6000 homes under mandatory evacuation orders.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (California Governor);

The head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan says the current strategy there is not working.
Gen Stanley McChrystal (US Commander in Afghanistan);