Stories by Phil Pennington

AJ Graham - who spent two and a half years in a prison after founding the Rebels biker gang in Tasmania - has returned to New Zealand.

The Australian Government has been forced to shelve university funding plans that would have doubled or tripled tuition fees for New Zealanders.

The secret children of a Catholic priest in New Zealand are about to reveal their identity to their local bishop.

Too many low-level offenders are being swept up by an Australian immigration clampdown that's affected hundreds of New Zealanders, police officers there say.

Immigration investigators are looking into a large Auckland private tertiarty institute "for issuing receipts containing false or misleading information".

A lawyer says it will cost New Zealand expatriates many thousands of dollars in legal fees to challenge immigration detention in Australia.

The law gives Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton sweeping powers to cancel the visa of any non-citizen whose presence "may, or would, be a risk to the community".

A New Zealand company's strategy of importing cheap but high-quality steel from China has contributed to its undoing, industry players say.

The Motor Industry Association wants owners who ignore repeated requests to have airbags fixed to be denied a warrant of fitness for their vehicle. Audio

A district council chief executive is keeping the water to a Māori land protester turned off despite health officials telling him it's illegal.

A building surveyor has revealed details of hidden and sometimes life-threatening building faults, including an apartment block not bolted to its foundations.

A local council that stopped screening people's emails after it was forced to admit it was doing so is poised to start up the interceptions again under new rules.

A report on cameras on fishing boats, dismissed by the Primary Industries Minister, was described as "robust and sound" by a top ministry science advisor.

Leaky home owners are struggling with escalating repair costs, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to their debt.

Family helping an 86-year-old raise money to fix his leaky home say they feel left to fend for themselves, with their father ineligible for government help.

The lack of government or council help for owners of leaky homes is shameful, two Auckland businessmen say.

Sixteen Manurewa families face losing their homes in one housing complex as the leaky homes crisis a toll on poorer neighbourhoods.

An international expert on homelessness is telling New Zealand to stop buying motels as emergency accommodation and instead do more to emulate Finland.

Advances in technology, such as driverless cars and skid-resistant roads, are expected to slash the number of road deaths and serious injuries in years to come.

A group helping apartment owners with repairs and litigation says the next government will face a growing crisis over substandard buildings.

A father of four about to be deported from Perth is urging the Labour Party to make Australia's detention of scores of New Zealanders an election issue.

A 12-year-old living in state care who said she was raped three times was questioned beyond what was necessary, a Family Court judge says.

A New Zealand-born motorcycle gang member who won a landmark case in Australia's highest court yesterday has been arrested in Perth.

Two New Zealand-born bikies facing deportation from Australia have won a long-running High Court battle.

The Ministry of Social Development gave information about state care abuse claims to police against victims' wishes, their lawyer says. Audio