Rugby fans from around the world will find out on Monday whether they have secured tickets to the semisand final of the Rugby World Cup in the third phase of the ticket balloting system.

The mainstream parties don't make their decisions based on what is fair, just or moral. They base it on ... politics.

Some surgeons are putting through claims they know won't be approved by ACC, its board chairman John Judge says.

The Government has bowed to pressure over the foreshore and seabed repeal bill and ditched a provision that would have allowed secret deals to be done with iwi to award customary title.

Phil Goff says a parliamentary committee ignored the "overwhelmingly" number opposed to the new foreshore and seabed legislation when they recommended it be passed without amendment today.

Sick and disabled NZers are taking legal action against the Australian Government over what they call a "discriminatory" law denying them medical care and other state support.

Contractors are often more vulnerable than wage-earners, writes Helen White

Prostitutes could be banned from street trading in Auckland and beyond after a Super City council vote.

The three strikes law for violent or sexual criminals has been used on 132 offenders since last June.

Measures to stop boy-racers from cruising and doing burnouts brought an 18 per cent drop in street-racing offences last year.

Politicians and unions are calling on the Government to move public holidays that fall on weekends to Monday as workers face losing two days off in 2011.

Unions are protecting thousands of new workers from the Govt's 90-day trial period law by negotiating collective contracts that exempt them from it.

Customers claim businesses are being greedy in adding surcharges on days not officially holidays.