Over 50 police officers have been disciplined this year for misconduct including turning up for work drunk.

A bomb disposal expert was killed by an artillery shell explosion just weeks after he returned from active service in Afghanistan.

An air force flight sergeant killed in a blast at Waiouru Military Camp today returned from service in Afghanistan just weeks ago, the Air Force chief says.

The Defence Force has released the name of the flight sergeant killed at Waiouru Military Camp in the central North Island today.

Around 160 women attended its first day-long Global Women forum in Auckland yesterday.

Job-seeking online is about more than checking postings, says Cassandra Gaisford/

A new 'people's choice' award for the best KiwiSaver communicators has been announced.

Auckland bus drivers turned their backs on a $500 sweetener from the region's public transport agency when they rejected a new pay offer.

An 11.5pc pay rise over three years, which was rejected by NZ Bus drivers and cleaners today, was recommended by its unions as "the best deal we could get".

The ERA finds Radio NZ was within its right to stop Morning Report presenter Sean Plunket writing a column in Metro magazine.

Disappointed bus drivers and cleaners stormed out of a meeting after being presented with NZ Bus's revised pay offer today.

A high-flying NZ banking exec says she was hounded out of her $250,000 pounds ($578,000) a year job in London by sexist Japanese bosses.

Drivers and cleaners will decide between 9.30am and 2pm tomorrow whether to accept NZ Bus's pay offer.

Heading to the courts is not always the best solution in industrial disputes, says employment lawyer Ross Crotty.