New Zealand great allrounder Chris Cairns is one of three players being investigated by the ICC over allegations of match fixing.

NZ Cricket Players Association boss Heath Mills says match-fixing allegations make it a 'sad day' for the sport, and believes the onus is now on players to come forward.

Ninety years after Auckland's leaders began hankering after electric trains in 1923, the city is poised to join the world of modern rail transport.

The gap between 15-year-old students who are excelling and those who are failing has widened despite the Govt's increased focus on the educational achievement "tail".

Bosses are being urged to look at why workers are staying home sick, as a new report puts the cost of employee absences at $1.26b a year.

The gap between the rich and the poor appears to be widening with the number of Kiwis earning more than $100,000 increasing by nearly three quarters.

In downtown Tokyo, state broadcaster NHK was airing the dull debates of a Parliament night sitting when all hell broke loose.

Bishop Brian Tamaki's right-hand man has turned his back on Destiny Church to become a pastor - the latest of several high-profile departures.

A man has been arrested in relation to the assault on Lance Michael Scullin in Tauranga on Saturday.

Pride and patriotism hasn't succumbed here, even in the face of lost lives and livelihoods, and the daily battle to get things back to the way they were before October 29, 2012.

A peek inside Auckland's Wynyard Quarter residences gives an idea of how the 1500-apartment precinct could look. And there's one big thing missing...

A push to make the wearing of lifejackets compulsory on small boats is another case of "Nanny State" and won't reduce drownings, a boating club says.

'It's important to remind people how fragile life is," says the keeper of a food stall a few metres from the ghostly ruins of Xuankou Middle School.

When 81-year-old Lois Kennedy woke to desperate cries for help from her neighbour, she leapt out of bed and ran - grabbing a hearth brush as she rushed to the door.

One of the world's leading earthquake scientists has called on New Zealand to adopt cutting-edge technology that could give people as much as 25 seconds' warning.

A former rest home manager is calling for better care for the elderly after her father was "starved of food and fluid" in a Whakatane centre.

Auckland's most expensive house, the seven-bedroom mansion on exclusive Paritai Drive partly financed by former Hanover Finance director Mark Hotchin, has been sold to a businessman for $39m.

NZ can look forward to cheaper broadband or higher data caps after National was yesterday left with no mates in Parliament to support its proposal to override price cuts.

Business reporter Hamish Fletcher talks to Vodafone chief executive Russell Stanners

A claimed sighting of the South Island kokako, a bird declared extinct six years ago, has fuelled hopes the species could still be alive.

Market changing, report finds, and while numbers are growing future is in visitors who want to stay longer.

Caregivers do tasks few could stomach, often for minimal wages, report Simon Collins and Martin Johnston.

Evan Birchfield had long been fascinated by tanks.

A successful building plan will result in a 10,000-home oversupply in Auckland, says NZIER.

"It's not a commodity you're dealing with, it's humans." Lloyd Dean fears the Edmund Hillary Retirement Village in Remuera failed to learn the lessons of his dad's death.

Friends of the four dead people say it was a miracle the collision over Auckland killed no one else.

Long-term care for elderly New Zealanders is becoming a byproduct of the property development business.

A caregiver says elderly residents at a rest home in the Wellington area were dressed again in dirty continence pads to save money on new pads.