Stories by Amanda Gillies

Team New Zealand's decision to take the Cup to Spain has stirred the pot, and critics are not holding back.

The Detail - The move to give police search powers in private homes to look for gang insignia has raised a mass of red flags with lawmakers.

Forestry is big business on the East Coast, but new rules about slash are threatening its survival.

Frontline St John ambulance staff say the organisation is broken and on life support.

The US election is a dog-eat-dog, no-holds-barred fight between two people who couldn't be more different to each other.

How top athletes like Lydia Ko can pull themselves out of their performance slumps to rise again

A life-saving charity that works with men and their mental health in Tairawhiti has shut, a victim of funding struggles

More transparency around political donations paints a clearer picture of which parties are coming out on top financially.

A short history of spying in sport, from deep sea dives to high flying drones