Spending half the year in the bush might be too adventurous for most of us, but for Ron Standfield it's retirement.

The new police commissioner is not intending to apologise directly to Arthur Allan Thomas despite a plea from his brother, who says the public apology was "half-hearted''.

The chief executive of a legal firm who stepped down after an internal investigation into his qualifications has admitted he does not have a law degree as claimed.

An associate of a former head of a top law firm who quit after he made false claims about having a law degree says the issue's been blown out of proportion.

The brother of Arthur Allan Thomas says new police commissioner should apologise to Mr Thomas directly for a recent eulogy and ensure resolving the Crewe murders has priority.

A popular Ponsonby bar has been caught out advertising jobs for women only, a day after the Herald revealed that Masala restaurant in Stanmore Bay had done the same.

Apple's iPad Air has come out on top of a review of 28 tablet computers by Consumer NZ.

Nick Walls knows the slow pace of recovery better than anyone.

Telecom has revealed its plan to become the Netflix of New Zealand by providing movies and TV shows to subscribers over the internet.

A top New Zealand businesswoman says Kiwi women are still being "frozen out" of the boardroom.

How do you stop truckloads of unsaleable food from going to the dump - and turn it into something useful? Put a few thousand piggies in the middle.

The number of people absconding from home detention is dropping, but offenders are still regularly cutting off their monitoring bracelets to get out and about.

For most 11-year-old boys, Facebook is a way to chat with friends and share photographs - but for Reece Puddington.

Taking on motherhood later in life is becoming more common in New Zealand.

The popularity of hospitality classes in schools has surged thanks in part to high-rating television shows such as MasterChef.

Farmers has stood proud in Auckland's central city for nearly a century - but the iconic store is about to close its doors for the last time in the CBD.

A Kiwi family packed in their jobs 16 months ago to see the world - and never in their wildest dreams did they think they would wind up settled on a farm in central France.

Korean mother Christina Oh, 39, is thrilled at the prospect of being able to vote in this year's general election after she got her New Zealand permanent resident visa just before Christmas.

Lorraine Cohen knows about drugs. She knows about trying to get clean, then getting dragged back in again.

The Warriors are on the march - and the Nines look here to stay.

Parents are going to extreme lengths to give their children a head start before they hit the school system.

Thousands of Kiwi jobseekers are being targeted by an alarming new identity theft scam in which fake job ads are placed on the TradeMe and Seek websites.

Business relations between China and New Zealand faced big challenges in 2013.

Art, music and sporting fans have been spoiled for choice with the NRL Auckland Nines, Rapture 2014 and Splore events occurring in the city this weekend.

A school principal prevented a likely fatal accident by jumping into a 29-tonne truck veering across State Highway 1 after its driver had passed out at the wheel.

For every day we survive on this earth, we in New Zealand can expect our lives on average to extend by six hours.

Oh yes. I was my own person from a very early age. I did things on my own terms.