Previously withheld information on Peter Thiel's citizenship will be released tomorrow.

Government's shake-up of post-quake Canterbury schools mishandled, Chief Ombudsman finds

Safety problems appear to have extended across the RNZAF and not just fatal squadron.

There is government tension over the Official Information Act.

Researchers say a government agency holds more than 100 reports into alleged fish dumping.

COMMENT: Researchers seek reports into fish reporting and dumping.

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.

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.

At least two more schools have been investigated after complaints about seclusion rooms - including one that was eventually closed.

New Zealanders could be vulnerable to fraud and theft if they meet the wrong person online.

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.

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 petition for an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit has garnered more than 2000 signatures in a day.

The family of an autistic man held in an isolated wing of a mental health unit have launched a petition calling for the minister of health to intervene in his case.

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.