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.
Nicola Willis has ruled out an austerity Budget, although she says the country's economic challenges mean the country is in a "darkest before the dawn" position.