Phil Pennington

Round the clock monitoring and housing of the country's highest-risk criminals has cost $14 million over the past five years, new figures have revealed.

The first report on the performance of the country's prisons released in more than a year puts the only privately-run jail in a group at the bottom of the rankings.

Indian student visa fraud is snowballing despite Immigration New Zealand's clampdown, and the Labour Party says fraudulent applications in the sector are now endemic.

The government's billion dollar figure for building 1800 new prison beds is only half what is needed to fix the crisis, the prison guards' union says. Audio

Most people will recover less than half of their legal costs after winning their case before the Employment Relations Authority, a survey has found.

Australia has got the jump on New Zealand in pushing for more access to post-Brexit Britain, New Zealand First says.

The Corrections Department is defending its prison performance measures, even though they ranked Mt Eden as exceptional when the jail was unsafe for inmates and staff.

The family of a man spear-tackled at Mt Eden jail has labelled a prison inspector's report into his death a whitewash. Audio

The record damages payout in the Colin Craig employment case has reignited debate that workers are being shortchanged by the Employment Court.

Some New Zealanders are being cut off from free public healthcare in Australia despite being eligible for it.

The National Party has pulled a fundraising show out of a Northland college hall after some parents accused the college of playing politics.

The Corrections Department is refusing to say how much it has spent supervising a repeat child sex offender 24 hours a day, for the past 12 years.

Police say they remain proud of the actions of officers during February's TPP protest, despite one being found to have acted 'unprofessionally'.

Top MPI officials were intent on prosecuting fishermen for dumping but ditched the case over concerns they would be embarrassed in court, an email trail has revealed.

Government officials put an Indian education agent on a list of fraudsters - then officials from the same ministry gave him a licence.

A human trafficking scam that's been running for years is allegedly using Facebook to lure migrants into jobs paying less than $10 an hour in New Zealand.

RNZ has uncovered evidence of migrant workers being scammed thousands of dollars by three unlicenced agents who've been investigated for years by Immigration New Zealand. Audio

Pithani Dugraprasad is a newly married, 32-year-old pipefitter, who lives near Viskanapatnam on the east coast of India.

Eight welders from India who were keen to migrate to New Zealand came across Srinivas Chamakuri in Singapore in 2008.

A structural engineering leader is "supremely confident" that steel mesh floors in houses won't fail in a life-threatening way.

A Melbourne woman is begging the New Zealand government to grant her partner a visa to save him from being deported to Syria.

The New Zealand government says it has not been consulted by Australia about any plans to close the Christmas Island immigration detention centre.

Steel-test certificates for a huge Auckland sludge tank have been rubbished by the country's watchdog for laboratories, which says they are not acceptable for any regulatory purpose.

Another legal avenue used by Australia to indefinitely detain New Zealanders has come to light.

The family of an inmate whose death triggered the Mt Eden jail fight club inquiry hopes its long-awaited report will hold someone accountable.