Television New Zealand boss Rick Ellis's $140,000 credit card spending in two years sounds high, Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman says, but he will reserve judgment until he hears from the state broadcaster's board today.

Public sector bosses have racked up thousands of dollars on fine dining.

Mediaworks wants to put TV and radio news operations under one roof.

Soap's plot echoes the horrifying Sophie Elliott saga, which saw a young student brutally killed by her tutor.

News bosses set a new course for current affairs show Sunday but smooth-talking TVNZ journalist Cameron Bennett has decided to jump ship.

David Bain has again called emergency services - but this time it was to assist a stranger.

Police are reviewing a defence witness' evidence from the David Bain trial, after a TV documentary which aired last night.

David Bain's legal team has slammed a documentary claiming Robin Bain could not have killed his family as 'unadulterated rubbish'.

A staff shake-up at TVNZ will put more focus on editing and packaging at the expense of analysis and journalistic groundwork, says Labour's broadcasting spokesman.

Around 31 news and current affairs roles are being disestablished in TVNZ's latest round of cuts, which it hopes will save $3 million a year.

Documentary-maker Bryan Bruce says he has new evidence to prove Robin was not responsible for the family's deaths.

New Zealand defence personnel and a Television New Zealand film crew in Afghanistan were involved in a bomb scare while on bomb disposal patrol.

Viewers rated the Wahine disaster as the biggest local news story of the past 50 years in a TVNZ poll.

The apparent haste in its preparation seeped through this two-hour One News special which attempted to be exhaustive but just came out exhausting.