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The Assistant Commissioner for Road Policing says police chases last a matter of seconds and are called off promptly if considered dangerous. Audio

Finance Minister Bill English has questioned the viability of Solid Energy as he considers a host of State-owned companies facing financial difficulties. Audio

A lobby group for writers is urging the Government to save Learning Media, the company that provides the School Journal to primary schools.

National list MP Aaron Gilmore returns to Parliament this week to face more questions about his behaviour during the party's mainland conference in Hanmer Springs.

Dame Susan Devoy says some of the criticism since she accepted the role of Race Relations Commissioner has been unfair.

The Auckland District Health Board has disciplined more than 30 staff members who accessed a patient's sensitive medical images. Audio

Questions are being asked about how a New Zealander facing sexual assault charges in Canada managed to get into the country on a false passport.

Police are investigating an estimated 600 new allegations of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World, a British newspaper says.

A Wellington iwi says land has been stolen from it and sold off by the body set up to manage its Treaty settlement money.

Learning Media, the state-owned enterprise that provides the School Journal to primary schools, is under financial pressure to compete with other businesses.

Canterbury Museum has created a multi-media exhibition about the Christchurch earthquakes.

Fiji Media Watch supports the use of electronic gadgets in schools as long as it is monitored to benefit a student's learning within the education curriculum. The civic society organisation...

French and Malian forces are patrolling Timbuktu after retaking the desert city and receiving a heroes' welcome from locals, but not before Islamist fighters torched a centre of ancient learning.

Fairfax Media confirmed on Monday it will sell its remaining stake of 51% in Trade Me.

Police in the American state of Oklahoma have arrested a high school student and charged him with plotting to bomb his school and shoot students.

The Wall Street Journal says a British businessman who was killed in China had been providing information to the British secret service.

Runners from around the world who converged on New York for Sunday's marathon have expressed understanding but couldn't hide their bitter disappointment at the last-minute decision to call off the…

An expert on drug-trafficking says the seizure of a large amount of illicit drugs in a shipping container of Fonterra milk powder in Algeria is an unusual case.

An Australia non government organisation says diplomatic observers would help the world learn about alleged human rights abuses in Indonesia's Papua region. The Human Rights Law Centre was responding…

School principals have hit back at the Government's assertion that parents can use national standards figures published today to help them choose schools for their children.

The head of the South Pacific Tourism Organisation says the Pacific region needs to embrace online marketing and learn the tools of the trade before it's too late. Tourist numbers...

Three men have appeared in a Tongan court following the death of a New Zealand police officer. Audio