The Government has been urged to introduce facial-recognition technology for poker machines to restrict problem gamblers as part of an overhaul of gambling laws.

Can't quit smoking? The answer may lie in your genes, according to a new study from Dunedin.

A banned poker machine addict slipped through all SkyCity's safety systems to play his way to VIP status in the casino's high-roller room - blowing $500,000 in the process.

Sarah was losing her husband. It wasn't another woman who had slipped into her life. Instead, John was taken by SkyCity casino.

Joe Jackson learned of his son Michael's death from a fan.

A "grossly intoxicated" man who took a samurai sword to his mother's throat when she refused to hand over his car keys has been ordered to undergo alcohol counselling.

Drinking and driving went together like bourbon and coke and then someone died. The offender could legally be back behind the wheel soon after he's out of jail. Phil Taylor asks why there is no life ban