Stories by Emile Donovan

Immigrant groups say it's fair that in future the government wants to pay them superannuation only after they've lived in New Zealand for 20 years.

Police are spending less on informants and the Labour Party wants to know why.

"People look at everything blackened, with no smoke, and they think it's all over - it's not," says a helicopter pilot fighting the Christchurch fires.

In a New Zealand first, two judges jointly retired at a ceremony at a Tauranga marae yesterday afternoon - and to compound the novelty, the pair just so happen to be married.

At $480 per week, Wellington's median asking price for rent is $40 shy of what people pay in Auckland, Trade Me data shows.

Empty drums exploded at a Leeston honey company during a blaze which took three hours to bring under control, its owner says.

Six people have been arrested after a NZ-registered boat was seized in Australia as part of a trans-Tasman cocaine bust.

The government needs to stop Child, Youth and Family placing young offenders into police custody once they've appeared before a court, the Children's Commissioner and legal experts say.

The chief youth court judge says the number of teenage offenders forced to spend the night in police cells is unacceptable, as they're no place for young people to spend the night. Audio

A Wellington man has broken a longstanding record while spear-fishing off the west coast of Wellington.

More than 50 motorcyclists died in NZ in 2016, and while riders know they won't get any second chances, the freedom of the open road is irresistible. Video

A move to screen out drunk friends and family at Wellington Hospital's emergency department could be followed by other DHBs.

The title of Housing Minister has disappeared from Cabinet in yesterday's reshuffle, and Labour says it's another way the government is denying there is a housing crisis. Audio

Small pockets may be sold for housing, but most of Watts Peninsula will become a public reserve.

Pre-clinical research shows nicotine can help alleviate negative symptoms of the illness, such as poor attention span and a tendency to be startled easily.

Art might not be the first thing you think of when you hear the words "earthquake recovery" - but the first pieces of post-earthquake art are starting to appear out of Kaikōura.

The worst of Wellington's weather should be over, after today's torrential downpour.

Workers drank coffee, ate breakfast, wore slippers and there was no punishment for not attending, the ERA found.

Serious mistakes by exhausted junior doctors are going unreported because they think their concerns are falling on deaf ears, their union says.

Plans by Waikato University to open New Zealand's third medical school would bring "stress and difficulties" for students at existing institutions, Otago University says.

The Hawke's Bay Regional Council intends to try to acquire conservation land for a controversial water storage scheme even if its court appeal fails.

Plans to restrict dangerous dog ownership are being welcomed by the victim of a vicious attack, who says dogs should be treated like guns.

All dangerous and menacing dogs will have to be neutered under a new law being brought in by the government.

One of the country's biggest power companies has been fined over a marketing campaign for a 12-month unlimited data plan.

The group behind a Wairarapa irrigation scheme has admitted some of the figures used to secure $800,000 of taxpayer money are not up to date.