David Bain has filed a High Court claim against Justice Minister Judith Collins seeking a judicial review of her actions since she received the Justice Binnie report last August 2012.
A doctor battling the country's obesity epidemic says the "tragically" high fruit and vegetable prices need to be forced down, and junk food prices need to hit consumers in the pocket.
Campers have fallen victim to an atrocious start to the year, with heavy rain, gales and snow plaguing the South Island and lower North Island.
Gales and heavy rain have closed the Milford Track for the second time in just over a week, trapping 89 trampers, including children, in three huts.
Police say it is likely arrests will be made today in connection to the death of a "harmless" Featherston man early yesterday.
The south of the South Island saw temperatures creep up to or over the 30 degree mark today, and the North Island can expect high temperatures tomorrow, according to WeatherWatch.co.nz analyst Richard Green.
Home buyers had little to choose from last month as new property listings nationally hit a record low.
Manawatu Countdown supermarkets are reviewing their security measures after three stores were targeted within a week by armed robbers.
New Zealand has sent desperately needed supplies to cyclone-ravaged Samoa and Fiji as thousands remain in evacuation centres and vital services are cut off.
A marketing campaign encouraging Chinese tourists to rough it in New Zealand holiday parks might struggle to attract a big market, a tourism lecturer says.
A close relative of a young dad who died on the pool table he was trying to win by downing a bottle of vodka says the man was not a "heavy drinker".
A drug-dealing grandmother who drove around Wellington for years delivering cannabis has been jailed for nearly seven years for her part in a multimillion-dollar drug syndicate.
Invercargill police are investigating a series of attempted abductions by an older man with a white van - the latest being the attempted abduction of a 17-year-old yesterday.
The list of stars walking the red carpet at next week's world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been revealed - with one notable cast member missing.
If a big earthquake hits Wellington, the city could be cut off for four months, power and gas not fully restored for three months and without sewerage for several months, a new report warns.
A trial has started in the High Court at Wellington for a man accused of murdering a Stokes Valley father earlier this year.
Two men charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a couple in their 60s in a "horrifying'' home invasion have been found guilty.
The Automobile Association has rubbished claims by some motoring experts that if proposed changes to Warrant of Fitness tests go through, there will be dozens of preventable deaths.
Cross-dressing lawyer Rob Moodie has lost an appeal against a stinging Employment Court ruling that found he was "vindictive" and "vengeful" to a former employee.
A Waikino farmer who broke the tails of more than 100 of his dairy cows and hit them with steel pipes has been convicted for ill-treating the animals.