Probe into $300m farming empire sparks call to tax commercial income of charities.

Minister blames "connection to the Trump regime" for focus on citizen Thiel.

Previously withheld information on Peter Thiel's citizenship will be released tomorrow.

Now you can literally support the All-Blacks from birth.

Three men have been found guilty of a multi-million dollar fraud involving pokie machines.

Employing 200,000 people and taking $2.7b in annual donations, charities are big business.

The Herald has exclusively learned Family First is to be stripped of charitable status.

The most common reason for objections to marriages was a lack of mental capacity.

FBI director James Comey has arrived in Queenstown for a 'top-secret' spy conference.

The circumstances of Peter Thiel's NZ citizenship were so exceptional they have not been repeated.

Casinos had the largest increase in gambling, new figures show.

Peter Thiel netted tens of millions of dollars.

Billionaire Peter Thiel claimed in a citizenship application that if his unusual request was granted he would tell the world he was a New Zealander.

COMMENT: Peter Thiel makes for good copy, but the nub of the issue over his freshly revealed citizenship is straightforward: How'd he get it?

PM backs granting of citizenship to Trump-backing billionaire Peter Thiel as former Minister Wayne Mapp reveals he'd known about it for years.

The gambling records of a casino VIP led police to find a familiar name written on a piece of paper which changed the course of the investigation.

A man of Asian descent had his passport photo rejected by a government website when its facial recognition software registered his eyes as being closed.

Brian's wife, Hannah Tamaki, and senior Destiny minister David Kahu are officers in all three charities.

A doctor wanted on a sex charge in the United States has won a reprieve in his fight to keep his New Zealand citizenship after a bungled attempt to revoke it by the Department of Internal Affairs.

Foreign affairs officials say they have not heard from Nauru about the help Wellington gave Roland Kun which allowed him to flee the troubled state.

Children's passport renewals go online.

The 400 to 500-strong community has a tax-exempt charity operating as the Christian Church Community Trust.

New Zealanders are spending more again on the pokies but spending per person is static, despite better economic times.

The Department of Internal Affairs says demand for passports is more than 60 per cent higher than normal for December

Hidden homelessness campaigners are scratching out messages of housing desperation the old-school way.

Prince Harry's nine days in New Zealand cost Kiwi taxpayers $426,317 - more than three times what it cost Australians.

A spend of more than $360,000 on pay television subscriptions by Government departments has been criticised by Labour.

A Government inquiry into the escape of convicted murderer and paedophile Phillip John Smith has been extended.

A former West Auckland principal who pleaded guilty to possessing objectionable material can be named for the first time.

An illegal immigrant who paid a NZ couple $8000 for their identities to get false passports has been deported.