Law

Fines, unreasonable rosters and restrictive contracts - strippers are laying bare the realities of working in their industry.

The National Party plans to use its extra place on a select committee to strongarm the government into making a crucial change to its freedom camping legislation.

Six former members claim they lived in slave-like conditions on a gruelling rotation of domestic duties.

The Natural Hazards Insurance Bill clears up the rules around making multiple insurance claims on mixed or multi-use buildings.

Disabled people have told MPs the proposed law should set up standards backed with real enforcement, or be scrapped.

Calendar Girls dancers told not to come back to work are picketing outside of the strip club in Wellington and lobbying Parliament over their rights as independent contractors.

Chris Hipkins is stuck in the city while Air New Zealand's domestic Auckland flights are grounded, meaning Cabinet will be held online today. Audio

A former British army sergeant has outed himself as the man who poisoned dozens of pine trees on council land in a small Southland town.

An international law expert believes Japan is passing the risk of its upcoming release of treated nuclear wastewater into the ocean onto Pacific leaders.

Māori locked out of their whenua by perpetual leases are continuing their fight against century-old legislation.

A2 Milk has succeeded in halting a local class action over alleged misleading and deceptive conduct and breach of stock exchange rules on continuous disclosure.

The lawyer for a man convicted of the murder that occurred in 1987 also says the Crown did not prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.

Court records showed last year Hyung Sun Kim was suing for $19m over the blighted office block.

KiwiRail has been criticised for making the permit process for working near railway lines too costly following a worker's death at a level crossing.

A state of emergency was declared to deal with the unprecedented flooding in Auckland. But what is a state of emergency and what powers does it grant?

The Court of Appeal ruled the sentences unjust and replaced them with set terms of prison and shorter minimum periods.