A mother says she can never forgive a stranger who kidnapped her daughters and "destroyed" their innocence, confidence and trust by subjecting them to a terrifying ordeal.
Green building advocates say winter power cuts wouldn't be an issue if New Zealand's housing building standards were not decades behind most other countries in the OECD.
Jonathan Beau Hall was not qualified to sign off engineering designs for 946 properties around the country but he did it anyway, forging the signatures of two chartered professional engineers.
The gang member who fatally shot a man in Auckland last weekend was deemed to carry a low risk of reoffending by Corrections after he assaulted someone in 2020.
NZ's largest electricity distributor is warning the country to hurry up with controls around charging electric vehicles - or face unnecessary bills running into the billions.