Stories by Bill Hickman

A group of sufferers, survivors and supporters gathered at Parliament to call for screening age to be lowered.

Trans-Tasman Resources wants to mine the South Taranaki Bight seabed every year for three decades.

A Wellington man is being investigated over "multiple complaints" of assault, which RNZ understands relate to sex crimes.

The driver Alan Leatham died at a local hospice after living with Parkinson's disease and had a stomach tumour.

Two women came forward about being assaulted by the same man in incidents which occurred years apart, after the women connected following a social media post about the man. Audio

Cash and assets seized by police were less than five percent of the $1.6 billion of criminal profits each year, the Ministerial Advisory Group on organised crime says. Audio

The change means 33 current claims, representing thousands of workers, will be dropped and must be started again. Audio

Lawyers for Wellington City Council deny staff pushed councillors towards demolishing the City to Sea Bridge.

Lawyers for Wellington City Council say councillors were given multiple options, and deny staff pushed them towards demolishing the City to Sea Bridge.

Lawyers for a group challenging the Wellington City Council's plan to demolish the City to Sea Bridge say it is not too late to consider other options.

Replacing the full licence test with a "good behaviour" period and increasing penalties by reducing the demerit threshold does not make better drivers, road safety advocate say. Audio

Lawyers for a group seeking to pause the roll out of speed limit increases say the changes are ignoring NZTA's own safety findings.

Abdulhassan Nabizadah was found critically injured on the corner of a Miramar street. Audio

James Gardner Hopkins was suspended after inappropriate touching of summer interns.

The man later died in hospital.

And in a second case, a woman died following delays to surgery.

The acting chair said making the agency review the cost of contracts over the last five years would distract the agency from addressing problems facing the region's water infrastructure.

Fans are saying the magic of the event will be hard to recreate when it moves on from the capital next year. Audio

The Palmerston North business owner faces charges related to just over $300,000 paid to his company for for window installations that never eventuated.

Simeon Brown is proposing greater reliance on private hospitals to reduce the backlog for elective surgery.

Even mayor Wayne Guppy donned his best mullet hairdo in support of a weekend of hard rock, black t-shirts, fast cars and beer.

A Wellington woman has come forward as part of a group that added the colours of the transgender pride flag to a pedestrian crossing in the suburb of Berhampore last weekend.

A probe uncovered poor value for money from contractors, loose financial controls, and even one case of alleged theft. Audio

A Wellington law firm is defiant in the face of complaints to police and the Law Society over a letter sent to practitioners of gender affirming care earlier this month.

The Royal New Zealand College of GPs says a letter has been sent to 20 practices offering gender affirming care. Audio