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Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe will be buried in the National Heroes Acre monument in Harare, his family says, following a row with the government over his final resting site.

Emails show Lower Hutt Mayor Ray Wallace was told in February that bad plumbing in 96 apartments - worth up to $700,000 each - in a retirement complex was life-threatening.

The liquidator of Stanley Group says the construction company is facing a $13.5 million deficit and it appears it has not held on to some retentions.

A woman sexually assaulted by a Marist brother as a young girl has told a court it destroyed her life.

MPs scrutinise Medsafe and the Ministry of Health over a brand change to a generic anti-depressant that select committee submitters say caused serious side effects.

Power Play - How has the Prime Minister ended up in the middle of scandal involving allegations of bullying and intimidation, through to sexual assault, asks Jane Patterson.

A Lower Hutt retirement complex is in damage control after bad plumbing left elderly residents exposed to noxious sewer gases and bacteria build-up in all the showers. Video

The government has come under fire for its lack of Māori suicide prevention strategy and its barriers to Māori mental health service providers getting funded. Audio

Nearly 40 years since the first kōhanga reo opened its doors in Aotearoa, only half the number of centres remain, and enrolments are declining at an alarming rate.

A former constable had suicidal thoughts because of the persistent bullying he faced during his time with the police.

The government plans to increase suicide prevention services in DHBs, provide more funding to hospital emergency departments and fund free counselling for 2,500 people bereaved by suicide.

Foreign students' lives are at risk because of a lack of culturally-appropriate counselling and mental health support, health services warn.

In today's sports news - Venus into US Open final, Black Caps opener returning home and Kiwi swimmer calls it quits.

Internal Affairs has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of community grants to anti-abortion pregnancy counselling organisations over the past 15 years. Susan Strongman reports.

Fiji's National Secretary for Sanatan Dharam, Pratinidhi Sabha, says the Hindu community is shocked and saddened by the recent deaths of five family members in the Nausori Highlands.

Minister for Children Tracey Martin will not outlaw holding young people in police cells, despite widespread agreement it's an unsuitable practice.

Official figures have revealed there were 135 incidents of self-harm in youth justice facilities in the last five years.