Wellington, Sept 9 NZPA - One of the country's biggest dairy farming operations say they have been hounded by authorities over dirty dairying and will sell all their farms.

Wellington, Sept 9 NZPA - A Christchurch City Council proposal to buy `house of horrors' where two bodies were found last Friday has lifted a huge weight of him , the owner of the adjoining home says.

Wellington, Sept 1 NZPA - New Zealand's efforts to reduce plastic bag use are underwhelming and a supermarket's backtrack on charging for bags shows major players are doing as little as possible, say environmental campaigners.

Wellington, Sept 1 NZPA - The commercial reality of a cut-throat supermarket environment has forced Foodstuffs Wellington to axe the compulsory plastic bag charge it introduced only four weeks ago.

Wellington, Aug 26 NZPA - Two more people have been charged over the alleged sale of fake passports to Pacific Island overstayers.

The duo appeared in Manukau District Court today with the scam's alleged ringleader Gerard Otimi.

Wellington, Aug 24 NZPA - The father of an English tourist killed while river boarding in the Kawarau River Gorge last year is pleased adventure tourism company Mad Dog River Boarding today pleaded guilty to two charges relating to her death.

Wellington, Aug 24 NZPA - A rope from which a student fell to her death near Woodville in Manawatu in March was too long and not secured properly, a court was told today.

Wellington, Aug 19 NZPA - The Queenstown company British tourist Emily Jordan was river boarding when she drowned was operating in a regulatory vacuum regarding safety requirements, a court was told today.

Wellington, Aug 18 NZPA - A guide who tried to rescue a drowning English tourist from under a rock in the Kawarau River Gorge last April told Queenstown District court there was nothing he could do to save her.

Wellington, Aug 18 NZPA - The Crown will not appeal the sentences given to five people found guilty of manslaughter after a Maori curse-lifting ceremony went wrong.