Report confirms Aussie reporters had answers on matter two weeks before it was inquired.

William Yan will keep NZ passport because Labour Minister already knew of 'concerns'.

Posts included sheep jokes, a lot of kiwifruit and Wal Footrot.

Ombudsman cites "public disquiet" over case in criticising redaction of documents.

A small team of Customs staff last year uncovered 400,000 items of child sex abuse images.

Two strangers made a civil union possible when they agreed to be witnesses.

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.

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.

CIA director Mike Pompeo is among members from 15 agencies to attend the conference.

New Zealand's most important documents have been moved in a ceremonial process

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.

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.

Lotto will be donating all profits from next Saturday's draw to the quake relief.

An Auckland man has been jailed for emailing more than 42,000 files that involved the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.

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