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The Corrections Minister is looking at scrapping short prison sentences in favour of longer ones, in the hope of reducing reoffending.

The country's second-most powerful police officer remains on leave, four months after he was suspended pending a criminal investigation.

Organisations trying to help people get off meth in Northland towns like Kaikohe say they are overwhelmed by "a tsunami of need".

The number of high-achieving teens who go overseas after finishing school has reached an all-time high - but it is not clear why.

Residents of a Banks Peninsula town are angry and frustrated as they say opening a nearby lake to the ocean would've mitigated flooding in the area.

A Christchurch firefighter who helped pool his colleagues’ meal allowances so they could cook meals on shift has been cleared of any wrongdoing after his employer accused him of misusing the money.