Schools in New Zealand are short of staff because of a backlog created by a new law requiring vetting of workers responsible for children. More than 50,000 are in the queue!

Snow and floods have hit New Zealand. Mind you, it's midwinter. Meanwhile, what's happened to the bee population?

Kiwi Alvin Cobb has a tyre recycling business. The only problem is, he hasn't recycled any and now has a stockpile of 700,000 tyres he doesn't know what to do with.

After more than 40 years living in New Zealand, Scots-born Graeme Watson has discovered he has no right to live there. David Campbell reports.

As the Australian government fights accusations they paid people smugglers to turn back the boats, the Kiwi PM says they'd never stoop so low.