David Bain has spoken out about his dire financial situation, telling the New Idea magazine: "I'm having to do everything from nothing. I've had to do a catch-up of 15 years. I've had no income.

Police paid criminal narks nearly $2 million in the past five years.

Radical changes to the legal aid system will put an end to taxpayers paying defence lawyers up to $900,000 a year.

In olden times, the mob would deliver justice via the guillotine and celebrate the deed by parading the guilty person's head on a pike.

Interests closely associated with Mark Hotchin still control an opulent $9.8m Waiheke Island beachhead.

Waikato-Tainui could be headed for the courts after a woman King Tuheitia fired claimed the move was unconstitutional.

A high-flying financial analyst is accused of a road-rage attack that left a motorist with broken legs.

Present and past Govt ministers are likely to come under scrutiny from the royal commission of inquiry into the Pike River mine tragedy.

Judy Kraidy lost her job teaching foreign students because she refused to pass those who didn't learn anything.