Jordan Bond

Vengeful liars who want to destroy him - that's Arthur Allan Thomas' lawyer's line to jurors set to decide his fate, over rape allegations.

But the Crown says the recollections of five people are… Audio

A major new environmental plan for the Hauraki Gulf is being cautiously supported on all sides.

The government has announced protection zones which will prohibit fishing, as well as a severe… Video, Audio

A woman accusing Arthur Allan Thomas of indecently touching her on multiple occasions says his false imprisonment felt like the appropriate punishment for what he did to her.

Thomas, famously… Audio

Arthur Allan Thomas - framed by police for the infamous murders of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970 - is on trial accused of historical sexual offending.

A two-week trial in the Manukau District… Audio

New Zealand is relying more and more on coal to power the country, despite its status as the world's worst fossil fuel.

Government figures show in the first three months of this year the same amount… Audio

Auckland Airport was filled with relieved homecomers last night with the first flight arriving from Melbourne in over two weeks.

All flights to New Zealand from Melbourne were suspended on 25 May… Audio

Police have arrested dozens of senior gang members in a massive international crime sting. The director of the National Organised Crime Group detective superintendent Greg Williams says his team was… Audio

Plans to build a $700 million bike bridge have been deemed totally unnecessary, when a lane of the existing Auckland Harbour Bridge could be used instead.

That's the response of one cycling advocate… Audio

The government has unveiled a nine billion dollar suite of transport projects, including a nearly 800 million dollar bridge over the Auckland Harbour for pedestrians and cyclists. Not everyone is… Audio

The tourism industry doesn't share the same confidence as Treasury forecasts, when it comes to reopening the border.

Throughout the Budget, Treasury's assumptions were based on what they called a… Audio

WaterCare says it has some sympathy for the Aucklanders whose water costs will double in the next ten years, but says - unfortunately - it's a necessary pill to swallow.

Aucklanders meanwhile think… Video, Audio

A former senior manager of a building supplies company says he wouldn't have bought a house clad with his own company's product over his fears it would leak.

That cladding from the company James… Audio

A cyber-security expert says the ransom demand for Waikato DHB's hacked data would likely be in the millions or even tens of millions of dollars, and only payable by cryptocurrency.

Stuff is… Audio

There's relief for the family of a woman who died of cancer, after a final ruling that she was wrongly denied money from ACC in the years before her death.

Deanna Trevarthen died of a cancer called… Audio

The Reserve Bank is keeping the economic ship steady, holding the Official Cash Rate at record low levels and carrying on its bond buying and cheap lending programmes.

But for the second time in a… Audio

A lawyer for the building materials company James Hardie has blamed bad construction for a leaky home - not the company's product.

The James Hardie group of companies are being sued for more than 200… Audio

Business owners say they have been forced to pay more and risk breaching contracts because they can't get goods into Ports of Auckland.

Goods are being re-routed to Tauranga and arriving five weeks… Audio

A class action lawsuit is alleging a major building product manufacturer never tested its product before selling it - and once they knew it was defective, continued selling it.

More than a thousand… Audio

A trial - six months in the making - involving hundreds of homeowners, has finally launched against the building materials company James Hardie. The class action lawsuit alleges James Hardie knew its… Audio

A nurses union says the government's decision to freeze public sector pay could push many of their members into voting for strike action.

After a meeting with unions, the government says it will now… Audio