Guyon Espiner

Why is the SIS subject to the Official Information Act while the IPCA is not? The chair of the police watchdog defends the secrecy but admits it doesn't have enough resources to do its job properly.

When police shoot and kill, they're investigated by fellow officers. Guyon Espiner reveals that shooters have been shown evidence in advance of being interviewed.

In a major u-turn, the police watchdog has found constant, late-night checks on Shargin Stephens were unreasonable and may have contributed to him lashing out, before police fatally shot him.

Lawyers who often act for vulnerable and low-income people could be paid extra if their clients enter an early plea under a new Ministry of Justice scheme to speed up the court process.

First person - Guyon Espiner can still remember the Steinlager ad campaigns of his youth, and years on, it remains impossible to escape alcohol marketing.

Police are trying to assume the online identities of suspects and defendants by taking over their social media and email accounts to gather information. Audio

An expert on America's 'supermax' jails says the way women are treated in New Zealand prisons is "extremely troubling".

Jerrim Toms' mum asked police to help her mentally ill son. They ended up shooting him as he ran away. Guyon Espiner investigates.

Many of the private law firms with warrants to prosecute serious crimes are failing to reflect the diversity of the regions they serve - even though it's a condition of their contracts.

Why do we give $41 million each year to private law firms to conduct public prosecutions? Guyon Espiner investigates.

Analysis - Guyon Espiner on how a leader may have plans for grand transformation, but they are often instead judged by how they react to events.

Highly confidential meetings where Pharmac ranks the funding priority of medicines are open to executive assistants, payroll staff and graduates.

RNZ is challenging a reporting ban that effectively prevents media publishing any information about the fatal police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens.

A Tauranga mother is moving to Australia with her ill daughter to access treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy that Pharmac won't fund. She has to leave her husband and son behind.

Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from Uyghur and Falun Gong political prisoners.

John Key says China's human rights issues shouldn't hinder a close economic relationship, as he reveals the country's president sends him Christmas cards.

The young New Zealand resident says he has lost all contact with his family in China and the Chinese Embassy will not help him.

The police watchdog is reopening its inquiry into the 2016 police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens.

The former US National Security Advisor is warning New Zealand over its economic reliance on China and says we must decide between 'sovereignty and servitude'.

Suspected spies have been spotted in Chinese politics and history lectures taking pictures of content and 'correcting' lecturers by giving CCP versions of historical events.

A coroner has banned media from reporting all evidence in the inquiry into the death of the Rotorua man, after RNZ revealed discrepancies in the official story of the police shooting.

The IPCA is considering reopening its inquiry into the police shooting of Rotorua man Shargin Stephens, who was shot and killed after smashing up a police car with a weed slasher.

Five years after an officer shot and killed a young Māori man, Guyon Espiner reveals previously untold disparities between what the public knows and what the evidence reveals.

Two of New Zealand's leading cancer experts have slammed Pharmac's proposal to take away the special exemption which gives children with cancer access to any drug they need.

Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning Pharmac not to play one group of children with a life-threatening illness off against another.