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.

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.

At 95, Lilian Robinson is blazing a new path for older Kiwis who want to stay out of rest homes.

Elderly people needing home care in north and west Auckland are waiting up to a year to get help - ironically because a new, improved assessment system takes longer.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Kieran Read has gone global - he's the man everyone in Europe can't stop talking about and he's the man most pundits here are expecting to be named IRB Player of the Year. Read's influence is huge, as it has been pretty much all year. Think back and so many of the best bits of the All Blacks in 2013 involve Read.

Ahead of the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards, co-host and finalist Stan Walker spoke to Hugh Sundae about hosting the Critics' Choice Prize Showcase, indie crowds, and the boundaries of pop music.

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.