A two-month Herald investigation of rest homes has found some major failings - including a confused married woman "mauled" by a resident and a 9-month scabies outbreak.

The All Blacks completed their first perfect season as a last-gasp try by Ryan Crotty and an Aaron Cruden conversion defeated Ireland 24-22.

Do you remember where you were when you heard my father had died, asks Holly Donald, daughter of Rod.

Retired air force warrant officer Frank Bailey, MBE, has never been a complainer. But when he speaks of his late wife, Lilian, he chokes up.

Competition is heating up in the $5.6b credit card market, with two major banks releasing new offers in the past week.

In this exclusive extract from a new book written by David Fisher, Kim Dotcom relates how he met his future wife Mona - and the efforts to woo her.

The Remuneration Authority has approved a "restrained" pay rise for MPs, giving each backbencher $3,500 more a year and raising PM John Key's salary by $9500.

Poor, elderly, small town dwellers and Maori and Pacific people are being left on the wrong side of the "digital divide", according to a new survey of NZ internet use.

A touch of Venice is about to hit Auckland as plans progress for a new canal to be dug through the centre of Auckland's Wynyard Quarter.

In the days after the super typhoon killed thousands, 3rd Degree reporter Paula Penfold and producer Eugene Bingham travelled to the Philippines.

There was an axe in the hands of a man who was clearly upset. It wasn't an ideal situation.

Cross-party inquiry comes up with strong message for change from emphasis on caring for people late in life.

He can't tweet, but it hasn't stopped John Key giving a speech at an information technology summit.

Follow the tarmac under the trees and the road snakes around the cliffs away from Hicks Bay to a secret and special hidden beach.

'I have just found out that my employer has not been paying my KiwiSaver contributions or employer contributions.' Now what? Helen Twose tells you.

The taxpayer, rather than developers and home buyers, should pick up the bill for connecting new homes to water, sewerage and other council infrastructure, the NZ Initiative has recommended as a measure to control house prices.

Making sure pregnant mums see a doctor within 10 weeks of conception should be a national priority, say MPs working to improve children's health.

As one of life's builders, Nigel Latta enjoys meeting inspirational people - and watching zombie films.

Before Michelle Goodhew started catching babies, she was catching fish.

It's starting to feel that Dan Carter's sabbatical might be the last throw of the dice. This year he's managed just 150 minutes of rugby in the last four times he's started.

'We thought it was just an accident, but then the second time we knew it wasn't.' Witnesses described the horror of watching a repeat hit and run in Hamilton.

Hard slog and a classy lineout got the All Blacks home this morning in London. Seriously hard slog as it happens as England were a tough nut to crack.

I didn't do it for charity. I didn't do it just for novelty. I really did it to irritate the girl I was seeing at the time.

An unpublished photo of former president JFK minutes before his assassination sat on a desk in a Mission Bay home for 30 years.

It was a moment of stupidity that almost cost Greg Watts his life - and made headlines around the world. We meet the man who fell from a motorised bar stool.

It's been a week since a tweeted picture of Lorde and Eleanor Catton reading in bed together in New York became a world-wide hit.

A remote group of islands notorious for shipwrecks and a massive tract of land that takes in four of our national parks have been rated among the world's most important and irreplaceable protected areas.

Of all the tributes paid to Daniel Carter this week for his 100th All Black test, none will mean more to him than that made by Jimmy Cowan.