State broadcaster TVNZ has attempted to push the mute button on staff - with a media ban and fears of dismissal for those who speak out.

A few years ago, he was the $60m man with a property empire that included over 20 pubs, hotels and a fun park. Now Michael McGurk is doing odd jobs to get by, and has a criminal conviction.

As Patrick Veal performed CPR on his good mate Kenny Jenkins, he feared the 23-year-old was going to die on the side of the road.

Former TV star Tamati Coffey wants to be Rotorua's next MP, and has been nominated for selection as a candidate for the Labour Party.

This rollercoaster of a victory over the old enemy has eased the pressure on the Blues - and will also cause a fair bit of soul-searching in Christchurch.

It feels like everything has been said in the wake of the death of Charlotte Dawson, including the good, the bad and the ugly, Paul Harper writes.

Michael Vukcevic has resigned from the Middle East Business Council after revelations he claimed to have a law degree.

International students are paying tens of thousands of dollars to attend our state schools - funding that is crucial to lessons, teacher development and other support for locals.

The public will be able to step inside 10 of Waiheke Island's most exclusive homes during the Waiheke House Tour.

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 Herald analysis shows students do far better under internal assessment, away from the pressure of tests

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

One day in the 1980s, a scientist took a bizarre phone call about a sheep in Canterbury that couldn't stop having triplets.

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.