During a visit this week to the NZME offices, a relaxed Eric Murray and Hamish Bond were clearly in a post-Rio Games mood.

It is a principle of the New Zealand justice system that the administration of the law should be equal and transparent.

As Auckland expands under the Unitary Plan, the council is going to have to deal with the kind of tension that has emerged at Brookby near Clevedon.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is eager to promote change in New Zealand schools.

EDITORIAL: What is to be done with our citizen, William Yan?

An Auckland mayoral election with no fewer than 19 candidates presents voters with a dismaying task.

When sportspeople have reason to suspect someone has gone so far as to bug their team room, something has gone wrong.

If medals were awarded for brainlessness, Ryan Lochte would be on the podium.

After a nervous start, we got there. Yesterday New Zealand achieved its record haul of medals, eclipsing 1988 in Seoul and London four years ago.

How could a thousand people fall ill anywhere in New Zealand from drinking tap water?

After the disappointment of the All Black Sevens at the Olympics this week, some rugby fans were suggesting they should lose that title.

Despite everything, the Olympic Games are working their magic.

The report of the Independent Hearings Panel on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan injected a good dose of realism into the plan.

EDITORIAL: This country has no need to lower its interest rates.

The response of police to reports of people running up big bills in restaurants and then disappearing raises concerns not only for the restaurant owners.

As the curtain rises on the 31st Olympics, the prospects for a memorable games in Rio de Janiero are uncertain.

The description "head coach" on Kevin Roberts' CV is probably one he deeply treasured.

COMMENT: London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, wrote an important article for the Mail on Sunday this week.

It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.

After winning the Rugby World Cup last year, All Black coach Steve Hansen could probably name the tenure of his next contract.

For the past two weeks, reporter David Fisher and photographer Mark Mitchell have taken us on a journey through New Zealand as it is today.

New Zealand's prison muster is closing in on 10,000 inmates, about the population of Greymouth.

Predators have a price tag. According to a University of Auckland study, the cost of ridding New Zealand of pests over 50 years is about $9 billion.

We are going to see Russians winning medals and an Olympic movement in disgrace.

The Republican Party in the United States conferred its nomination for President on a man of doubtful political pedigree and unpredictable intentions.

A Treasury official suggested the Government could save more than $500 million a year legalising the popular drug.

Plagiarism is bad form. Campuses throw out undergraduates caught cribbing lines. But that's not the way it works in Donald Trump's world.

Having once been too reliant on one export market, NZ does not want to be in that position again, whether the market is post-Brexit Britain or China.

Russia and her allies have started a fightback to stay in the Rio Olympics after the sensational disclosures about a state-directed doping programme.

The Vice-President should enjoy his 24 hours here. His personality and his politics are closer to a Kiwi style than most American officials we greet.