Households and businesses in Auckland wanting to disconnect their piped gas could face higher fees to do so.

The Chief Justice's annual report says too few judges, high workloads and stress, not enough court rooms and fewer lawyers offering legal aid are putting the judiciary under considerable stress.

Roughly 20 percent of families with kids under five experience an accidental poisoning every year. More than half the calls to the National Poisons Centre are about this.

It's a subject that many find uncomfortable, but is a necessity - how to handle the end of life. Kathryn is Treza Gallogly, she's the chair of the End of Life Doula Alliance Aotearoa.

Around the motu: Piers Fuller reports from the Wairarapa

Lisa Adler from Unity Books Wellington reviews Flashlight by Susan Choi, published by Jonathan Cape.

Librarians say since fines for overdue books were ditched visitors are flocking back to public libraries - whose role in a community now extends far beyond issuing books.

In his latest book, investigative reporter Jared Savage explains how the illicit drug trade, depicted in big budget movies or television like Netflix's Narcos, is happening here. Underworld is the third in his series delving into organised crime and the drug trade.

A warning proposed moves to shake up who gets to make all decisions on the conservation estate would be hard to undo.

A New Zealand owned cloud data storage firm is sceptical about the scale of investment in New Zealand claimed by the tech giant Amazon Web Services.