Bladerunner Liam Malone says winning his first medal on his late mothers birthday was the highlight of his career.

ASB Classic organisers looking forward to strongest mens field in recent history, after rain wreaked havoc on the women's tournament.

Tests are still being carried out in the northern town of Lae but health officials suspect whooping cough, pneumonia or malaria.

The Auckland Council environment committee chair Penny Hulse says people aren't respecting the rahui but formally closing the Waitakere Ranges would not be easily enforceable.

Questions linger about the management of pests which target Totara. Reporter John Boynton looks at the state of the trees in the Raukumara Forest Park Range

The Road Transport Forum says the closure of the Thames Coast Road will hit the freight industry in the pocket and say it's time to future proof main arterial routes. Forum chief executive Ken Shirley says any disruption to the road network has a big impact on the freight industry.

Bugs and creepy crawlies may not be something you want to hear about over your breakfast, but Auckland Zoo is on a mission to get us all to feel a little more inclined to tiny little critters that outweigh and outnumber all other animals on earth.

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Alex Wright has fought the Whangarei District Council for years to get them to seal a dusty road outside her house. She talks to Alex Perrotet and says the council is ignoring pleas from its community.

Researchers say the offspring produced fewer eggs in utero after the mothers had taken painkillers but Dr Andrew Murray from Fertility Associates Wellington says there's no reason to be alarmed because the dosage will

The United Nations Committee Against Torture is for the first time calling on the New Zealand Government to compensate a prisoner for being unlawfully held. OUr reporter Craig McCulloch explains the case.