"The outside intervention of a Royal Commission is needed to sort out road police's incompetency" says Rachael Ford of Candor Trust. In their latest review Police try claiming New Zealands policy which increased pursuits 400% since 2002 is "restrictive".

New Zealand has a problem of wilful road safety mismanagement that is centered in the National Road Safety Committee. It's results flowing from hidden entrenched policy bombs amount to a campaign of domestic terrorism.

Labour Party MPs are currently touring the country in the "Axe the Tax" bus opposing the National government's plans to raise GST from 12.5% to 15%.

Christchurch, Dec 3 NZPA - Police allege a man did $400,000 in damage with ram raids on Christchurch parking meters that got him $20,000 cash.

Christchurch, Nov 17 NZPA - David Jerrold Theobald will have to pay for less than a third of the $41,500 damage he caused in his ram-raid protest at the Christchurch offices of the Inland Revenue Department.

This week in 1989 was one of the most historic in recent times. In Berlin, a city divided after the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in 1945, the wall came tumbling down. And that made it both a good and a bad time to be a socialist.

In the last two days Auckland City Mayor John Banks has been forced to back down on two major issues - parking charges and the Queens wharf - casting doubt on his leadership ability.

Several youths are contemplating breakfast in custody this morning following the recovery of three stolen cars in Hamilton early this morning.

Sergeant Charles Burgess of the Hamilton Police said the first car was recovered about 2.30am.

Keeping your Windows PC secure from viruses and spyware can be both difficult and expensive and some of the popular security software slows down computers.  Microsoft Security Essentials is a new free and effective anti-virus and anti-malware program.

Orcon, under its iSERVE brand, has launched New Zealand's first locally-developed cloud computing service for small to medium-sized enterprises.