Phil Pennington

A police report into a special needs school that used a seclusion room details how one child said his arm was twisted 25 times.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has brought just four successful fish-dumping prosecutions since 2009, newly released information shows.

The rules around using public money to fund students' overseas travel need to be clarified, says the principal of the Rotorua school that went on a $700,000 trip to Hawaii.

The Corrections Department has paid about $2 million for hotel rooms for extra guards it needs at Mt Eden prison.

People ignored by choppers following the Kaikōura earthquake are warning the same thing will happen in the next disaster unless Civil Defence improves.

The family of a prisoner whose death helped spark the Mt Eden Prison fight club inquiry says a new report raises disturbing questions.

A Clarence River woman is writing to authorities claiming the residents of the valley north of Kaikōura have been forgotten after the mid-November earthquake.

A Clarence River rafting guide has launched a cookbook sharing local stories from before and after the area was rocked by last month's earthquake. Audio

The prosecution of three steel companies shows the government has been negligent in monitoring building product quality, the Labour Party says.

Hundreds in Kaikōura whose livelihoods rely on tourists are facing a tough summer, with holidaymakers cancelling bookings at an alarming rate.

Scientists are checking every few days on 11 landslide dams in Kaikōura and Marlborough that may breach. Audio

The Office of Human Rights Proceedings will take legal action after CCTV footage was not given to a prisoner who was attacked in Mt Eden prison, leaving him with brain damage.

A teacher has been suspended and a teacher aide has resigned at a special needs school in Dunedin amid claims of children being abused.

An investigation suggests Corrections lied in its attempts to stop video footage being given to the victim of a prison attack wanting to sue the department.

Kaikoura man Kevin Keehan travelled by truck, tractor and helicopter on a cross-country trek to find his family after the earthquake.

Corrections sat on a finding that there were fight clubs at Mt Eden prison for a year, partly because the National Commissioner's doubted he could make Serco do anything about it, a report shows.

A man deported from Australia has been presented with a $A2886 bill despite assurances that people would not have to pay the costs of being sent back to New Zealand.

The Qualifications Authority did not know a man with a history of mistreating migrants was a key figure at a failed private international academy, despite a two year investigation.

The Indian immigration agent who got a New Zealand licence despite being on a list of fraudsters has now surrendered his licence.

The marketing manager at a failed Auckland private college was accused of telling a witness in the country's first human trafficking trial to lie to authorities, court documents show.

The marketing manager at an Auckland training college being investigated by the Crown solicitor had a record of disputes with migrants over employment issues.

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