A real estate agent must pay $1500 and undergo ethics training after replacing a private 'for sale' sign with one of his own.

A sacked executive's claims of potentially fatal gas installations around NZ are 'scaremongering', an ERA hearing has heard.

Demolition work proceeds on the Manchester Courts building, one of the earthquake damaged buildings on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Streets in Christchurch.

Wilderland, an alternative community on the Coromandel Peninsula, has been ordered to evacuate and demolish all its dwellings.

The Government has called for expressions of interest for design, construction and operation of a new privately run prison.

Tonga's king has threatened to sue lawyers in the Pacific island nation who are attempting to prevent him selling his sprawling Auckland royal residence.