The arrest of a person arriving at the border last month over unpaid student loan debt is an example of Inland Revenue "making up for lost time", one tax expert says.

A woman was in tears today as she confronted the school teacher who groomed her when she was just 13 before going on to sexually abuse her.

The Prime Minister and Opposition leader are in a political feud over who is lying about the overhaul of the pay equity regime.

Police today remain at the scene where a teenage boy died after a "violent disorder" incident in Napier at the weekend.

A young child living in a damp Kāinga Ora property was admitted to Starship Hospital after a two-year ordeal in which the rental property was eventually deemed unfit for tenancy.

Health NZ plans to cut its elective surgery waitlist by outsourcing thousands of simple cases to private hospitals, while asking public hospital doctors to work longer hours on the more complex cases.

A Christchurch eye surgeon who attempted to murder his former business landlord has been granted parole and will be released from prison early next month.

Police unlawfully pepper-sprayed and arrested veteran activist John Minto at a pro-Palestinian protest in Christchurch, the Independent Police Conduct Authority has found.