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Brian and Hannah Tamaki put up a mayoral candidate in Far North electoral race.

It's called ODESC and it gathers in times of crisis.

Our schools face an overhaul - David Fisher finds out what passes for public consultation.

Jami-Lee Ross MP might have a plan to his destructive attacks on his former party.

The identity of the secret $10,000 "Cathedral Club" donor is now known.

National Party said to be behind Queen's honour for Chinese businessman.

The woman who made the serious claims against her dead husband - is refusing to speak.

The degree of shock cannot be understood without a measure of the man who stood so tall.

Anihera Zhou Black has been outspoken about her community leader former husband.

Shock over paedophile allegations and calls for police to investigate.

Widow alleges her former husband engaged in orgies, group sex.

Research suggests severe policies have an effect opposite to what was intended.

Police boss says PM's partner is not - and has not been - subject of any police inquiry.

Two cases have had a three-year delay in having decisions delivered.

A former cop who has studied the Urewera raids has questioned police tactics.

Ten years after the terror raids, the 'armourer' talks about 'screaming into the void'.

An SAS hero has spoken of his journey to recovery after being wounded in Afghanistan.

Killer Quinton Winders would go for his guns, shooting at neighbours over real or imagined slights. It was evidence he tried to keep secret.

The children of murdered roadworker George Taiaroa have spoken of the enormous absence created by a father taken suddenly.

A jury yesterday found Quinton Winders guilty of the murder of George Taiaroa. David Fisher went in search of the killer's past.

The widow of slain roadworker George Taiaroa says the case against her husband's killer appeared rooted in a family obsession with money and a $989.50 panelbeater's bill.

One of the first people to reach slain road worker George Taiaroa has spoken of the moments after the father-of-four was shot dead.

Crown argues a road accident a week before killing provided a link between murdered road worker George Taiaroa and the accused.

The accident involved a meat hook at the Affco NZ plant in Rangiuru, the same meatworks which was fined $30,000 this week after a hook penetrated a worker's head.

WARNING: Graphic image. In an exclusive interview the cleaner caught on a meat hook reveals he tried to kill himself after the horrifying workplace injury.

The man accused of killing stop-go sign operator George Taiaroa is 45-year-old Taranaki man Quinton Winders.

"Exiting a plane at low altitude to get out and activate parachutes and have them open normally and land safely is amazing."

Tourism chief Martin Snedden is fighting construction of a concrete cycleway running past the family holiday home even though it is considered a boon for tourists.