An ex-real estate agent allegedly used fake paperwork to secure bank mortgages in other people's names as part of an elaborate property scam involving more than $10m.

Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

A John Banks impersonator who bemused followers online with oddball policies and flippant comments could soon be shut down.

Internet fraudsters are using Facebook to steal Kiwis' bank and credit card account numbers and identities.

A new phenomenon from the Canterbury earthquake: chimney scammers.

The wreckage now masquerading as a political party is beyond restoration, writes political columnist John Armstrong.

Having resigned from the Act Party, the question is now - will David Garrett leave Parliament altogether?

Prime Minister John Key says ACT leader Rodney Hide has shown good judgment and has his full support following the resignation of disgraced MP David Garrett from the party.

The Act Party has been "thoroughly" discredited and its ministerial positions should be removed, Labour leader Phil Goff says. "One thing the public can't stand is absolute hypocrisy."

Act leader Rodney Hide says David Garrett lost his support because he doubted the MP had been truthful in an affidavit he submitted to court over a passport fraud case.

Disgraced Act MP David Garrett has quit his party and conceded his political career is almost certainly over.

Rodney Hide refused to say how he would respond to David Garrett's public admission of identity theft until this afternoon.