The military's ability to care for the bodies of those who die abroad is under question.

Evidence was destroyed supporting Defence Force claims a damning report was inaccurate.

Ten years in Afghanistan and the only review into the mission was shelved.

It's costing taxpayers almost $1m a year to keep Ashley Peacock behind locked doors.

Eight Indian students facing deportation for immigration fraud have agreed to leave New Zealand by Monday but they are also asking

Hamilton City Council opened up its previously closed council workshops for the first time - except it forgot to tell anyone about it.

The Chief Ombudsman is warning Government agencies, that those who don't comply with the Official Information Act will face public embarrassment.

As New Zealanders are well aware, but probably Australians are not, many of these people who are detained are not Kiwis in any real sense.

The Ombudsman has been asked to review a refusal to release a copy of the investigation into a second case of alleged undeclared conflict of interest.

The Ministry of Education has put schools on notice: stop using cell-like seclusion rooms as punishment immediately.

Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed that 8 of the 64 special schools in New Zealand are using a seclusion room.

The Chief Ombudsman will investigate the use of seclusion rooms in schools, following reports that locked "time out" rooms had been used to restrain children.

An independent inquiry should immediately investigate the use of "time out" rooms in schools, says the head of the national Autism charity.

Angry parents say they will pull their children from a Wellington school caught using a "time-out" room for naughty pupils unless there is more accountability.

A bank has been told to pay a woman more than $13,000 after she lost not only her home in a mortgagee sale but items including family pictures.

EXCLUSIVE: Mother hits out at Wellington primary school's "dirty little secret": "I'm horrified a school would do that, my son is petrified of the dark."

Health authorities are considering plans to move mental health patient Ashley Peacock, to the dismay of his parents.

Leading architect and designer Chris Moller has slammed the decision to demolish the Aniwaniwa Visitors' Centre at Lake Waikaremoana

A long fight, but worth it, says cleared diplomat.

A leading human rights lawyer says the door is now "wide open" for Ashley Peacock to take health authorities to court

Associate health minister Sam Lotu-Iiga has been assured Ashley Peacock is 'being cared for in the best way possible'.

For the past year, the Office of the Ombudsman has been reviewing the Official Information Act.

A key Government watchdog is struggling to keep up with its oversight workload.

In Deborah Battell's first year as Banking Ombudsman there were 1888 formal complaints - a 99 per cent rise.

The Chief Ombudsman says a major review of the Official Information Act will scrutinise all 27 government ministers' offices.

The number of spin doctors and communications staff in government departments is on the increase again even after National swore to rein in the numbers.

The Chief Ombudsman will launch an investigation into the way the Official Information Act is being used - and it'll include a probe into Ministers' offices.

The national organ donation service at the Auckland DHB has been put on notice by an official-information watchdog after it was caught out deleting public records.

Police did not coerce Joyce Conwell to confess to the shotgun murder of Alec Rodgers in Christchurch in 1999, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has ruled.