Stories by Guyon Espiner

One of the last acts of the Dirty Politics saga has come to a dramatic end in court today with lobbyist Carrick Graham apologising for spreading defamatory statements about three public health…

The drug at the centre of an inquest into six epilepsy deaths was made at a plant in India that was investigated for significant quality control issues in 2017.

Auckland Women's Prison treated inmates in a "degrading," "cruel" and "inhumane" manner in a "concerted effort to break their spirit," according to a stinging ruling from a district court judge.

The SIS broke into a house and found evidence a man was raping his daughter, but didn't inform police. She was abused for two more years before she finally escaped.

An asthmatic woman who was bombed with pepper spray in her Auckland prison cell is going to court to stop Corrections using the gas, which is marketed as 'making grown men cry since 1975'. Video

The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service behaved in a "questionable" way by deciding not to inform police it knew a serious crime was being committed, an investigation by the Inspector-General of…

Two GPs caring for patients who died after switching brands of an epilepsy drug say they were not aware of the Pharmac brand switch when they prescribed the drug for their patients.

The first official recognition that changing brands of epilepsy drugs may have been a factor in at least one of six deaths has come to light as a Chief Coroner's inquest into the brand switch opens…

Corrections appears to have broken the law by keeping two women in a segregation unit for four months at Auckland Region Women's Correctional Facility, a human rights lawyer says.

Two men were granted immunity for murder and rape in exchange for a story that sent Gail Maney to prison for life. Should they have been? Guyon Espiner investigates.

The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner reports.

Iran is threatening legal action against New Zealand after learning the SIS broke into its Wellington embassy to plant bugs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Despite a legal battle, the names of those charged in the NZ First Foundation fraud case remain suppressed. As Guyon Espiner reports, the foundation has been shrouded in secrecy from the start.

A former Corrections officer says someone impersonated him to fabricate evidence in the case of convicted murderer Gail Maney.

The SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father but failed to lodge a complaint with the police, effectively allowing the abuse to continue for years, a former spy says.

Corrections admits it has opened itself up to the possibility of legal action as it may have broken the law by confining women to their cells for more than 23 hours a day.

New Zealand's largest women's prison has a "punitive culture" where guards are too quick to resort to force and women's health needs go unmet because of a lack of staff, according to an internal…

An imprisoned gang member organised a bar tab for Corrections guards drinking at a pub after hours, in an attempt to corrupt them.

A man labelled one of New Zealand's most notorious killers has lodged an appeal against the murders featured in hit podcast Gone Fishing.

Four people have been let in from Australia to work on an all-weather horse-racing track in Cambridge, sparking questions about what the government is prioritising during the pandemic.

More than $10 million is going to a horse track in the middle of NZ's second largest city, despite officials saying Christchurch is ineligible for PGF funding.

The foreign minister directed Antarctica New Zealand to give two highly-prized spots on a trip to the continent to two women closely linked to one of South East Asia's richest families.

The SIS broke into the Indian High Commission for MI6 and the Iranian Embassy for the CIA in the late 1980s and early 1990s to photograph code books, plant bugs and steal communications.

New Zealand has been "drawn in a lot closer" to the US-led spy network, the former prime minister says.

The Service - The senior Labour politician was spied on while he was as an MP, even when he had an oversight role of the intelligence agency.