Lundy's dinner chatter
Mark Lundy told brother, less than a week after learning of killings, of prostitutes and boosting wife's life insurance.
Dad's fury over sex pest flatmate
Single dad shocked to discover through social media that flatmate was a convicted sex offender.
Confusion over Iraq rules
OPINION: It was not just the Iraqi flag that went pear-shaped during a press conference with the Iraqi foreign affairs minister.
Uncertainty over housing
Could a lack of detail, and the risk of a loss to the taxpayer, unsettle the plan to sell some state housing?
Two-year limit on deployment
Kiwi troops could be deployed to Iraq for up to two years after the Iraqi Government opened the door.
School pleads for return home
Redcliffs School is pleading to be allowed to move back to its pre-earthquake home.
No need for cellphones
Two leaders in the Taranaki education sector say young children have no need for cellphones.
Schools' UE success rates plummet
Number of Manawatu school leavers making the grade falls dramatically after tightening of university entrance.
Off their trolleys
Patients stumbling into Wellington's emergency department will be breath-tested for the first time.
Departing chief coroner speaks out
NZ's first chief coroner Neil MacLean speaks on suicide rates, drinking ages, cot deaths and quad bike accidents.
Health leaders raise TPPA concerns
NZ health advocates among 27 signatories calling for public release of trade deal and its potential impact on healthcare.
High-value hemp crop denied
Crop growers struggling to get easy access to the lucrative hemp-seed market by a continuing unwillingness to change the law.
Another profitable harvest
Mid Canterbury-centred seed industry came off its high with $210m of exports last year and this harvest is shaping up for a similar result.
'Jury still out' on barns
Dairy farmers mulling a wintering barn on their farm might think twice after a study of five South Island barns found they were not always profitable.