If police and lawyers are to be believed, new Commissioner Richard Chambers was impotent for nine months to have charges dropped against a woman who'd accused his deputy ...

Sexual exploitation of children is seen as one of the worst crimes out there – but do the prison terms reflect the severity?

Climate Minister Simon Watts acknowledged he may face 'challenging' conversations with Pacific nations over the Government's ...

They might often look like architecture’s answer to climate change, but green buildings are also about comfort, productivity, and local innovation ...

Once labelled a 'toothless tiger', the authority behind a damning report on police conduct identified shortcomings in its own ...

Analysis: Projects like Transmission Gully have created a political stigma around PPPs, but perhaps we should be talking as ...

Acting Secretary for Education Ellen MacGregor-Reid has been appointed to the role of education secretary and Ministry of ...

Officials continue to work on a long-term fix to overseas adoption laws, two months after the Govt passed a temporary law change, under urgency.

Antonia Watson has pinned her defence of bank profits on a single, incorrect claim: that one in four home-owners is switching ...

Cautious response from Auckland defence lawyers to wholesale shake-up to jailing of serious offenders, reports ...

In the first of a series on the south’s pest issues, Newsroom looks at feral pigs, which are threatening national parks and wreaking havoc on farms and public conservation land.

A year on from the PM's apology to those abused in state care, survivors say they are still waiting for proper redress, ...