Stories by Phil Pennington

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

Most people will recover less than half of their legal costs after winning their case before the Employment Relations Authority, a survey has found.

Australia has got the jump on New Zealand in pushing for more access to post-Brexit Britain, New Zealand First says.

The Corrections Department is defending its prison performance measures, even though they ranked Mt Eden as exceptional when the jail was unsafe for inmates and staff.

The family of a man spear-tackled at Mt Eden jail has labelled a prison inspector's report into his death a whitewash. Audio

The record damages payout in the Colin Craig employment case has reignited debate that workers are being shortchanged by the Employment Court.

Some New Zealanders are being cut off from free public healthcare in Australia despite being eligible for it.

The National Party has pulled a fundraising show out of a Northland college hall after some parents accused the college of playing politics.

The Corrections Department is refusing to say how much it has spent supervising a repeat child sex offender 24 hours a day, for the past 12 years.

Police say they remain proud of the actions of officers during February's TPP protest, despite one being found to have acted 'unprofessionally'.

Top MPI officials were intent on prosecuting fishermen for dumping but ditched the case over concerns they would be embarrassed in court, an email trail has revealed.

Government officials put an Indian education agent on a list of fraudsters - then officials from the same ministry gave him a licence.

A human trafficking scam that's been running for years is allegedly using Facebook to lure migrants into jobs paying less than $10 an hour in New Zealand.