Andrew Little has officially launched his mayoral campaign, saying he's ready to do the hard work and ensure he leads a council that serves Wellington.

The Police Commissioner has initiated a review to ensure police have sufficiently strong controls to prevent or detect the misuse of police technology and equipment for non-work-related purposes.

Hundreds of close contacts of the measles case in Auckland have been contacted by HNZ over the past week, in an attempt to contain the risk of the virus spreading in the city.

Wild weather is forecast to clobber much of the South Island over the weekend but Otago and Southland look set to miss the worst of it.

Neha Sharma appeared to be an honest, hard-working Christchurch property manager at Oranga Tamariki. Until she and her husband conned the Government agency out of more than $2 million.

A pharmacist made around $126,000 after he stole medication from his work and sold it on Trade Me for four years.