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.

The Prime Minister is unmoved by a poll for the Drug Foundation showing most New Zealanders now support legalising, or at least decriminalising, cannabis.

COMMENT: Sometimes, a really effective policy simply doesn't get the appreciation it deserves.

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.

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.

The debate over the Bain murders looks destined never to be resolved in the public mind.

Regulation is hard to get right. The political climate tends to swing from excessive freedom to excessive restriction or vice versa.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Having summoned democracy to his side, the Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may need to be more willing to honour it.

Two pathfinding odysseys are circling the globe in unconventional carriers.

China refused to participate in the Sea Law case and does not recognise it as a legitimate exercise under international law.

It is hard to escape the sense that Hekia Parata should have gone further when announcing a limited inclusion of digital technology in school curriculum.

State housing and building programmes are just the political branding of a package that contains more potent taxation inside.

If the gun lobby in the US has been impervious to the carnage caused by lax gun laws, it surely cannot continue to ignore the power of phone cameras.