Five years on, a Bay of Plenty grower says people still don't know what myrtle rust is.

OPINION: Three years is too short to do anything really constructive for New Zealand.

OPINION: Premium subscribers have their say on the state of the workforce.

Plus: A clinical psychologist weighs in on how workmates can look after each other

Opinion: An estimated 50,000 Kiwis will leave the country in the next year

A gang member involved in an $8000 burglary has been given six months' home detention.

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He videoed himself having sex with a woman and put it on a porn site to get revenge.

Finding people who were drug-free and would show up was hard.

The upgrade was among $34m of residential and commercial consents granted last month.

'You know what that song sounds like? You don't need to listen to it again,' owner says.

OPINION: We all know someone who's been affected by mental health illness.

OPINION: By the time the campaign ended, more than 130,000 men had died.

It comes as agents report a dramatic shift to a buyer's market

The Head Hunters gang's plans to set up in Rotorua was thwarted when police busted them.

Mayor: 'Rotorua is unique, what suits us does not necessarily suit the rest of NZ.'