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The man behind the controversial container ship deemed to be a public artwork by the Environment Court has revealed future plans for the site - and they're unlikely to impress some already disgruntled neighbours.

The sentencing for the engineer whose building sign-off forgeries cast a shadow over more than a thousand properties across New Zealand was delayed so more district councils could submit victim impact statements.

It's been dubbed “one of the biggest public policy failures in New Zealand history” - and it's cost more than a quarter-of-a-billion dollars in less than five years for Hamilton alone.

A nurse who used “subterfuge” to hide extra work with a patient later sent a “menacing” text in a bid to get a complaint about him withdrawn.

Emails about an upcoming game of cricket were the unlikely jump off point for a row about lawyers' views on transgender and whether they should be censured for them.

The Fonterra Dairy Factory in Waitoa, which is set to see 41 roles ‘impacted' due to changes revealed by the dairy giant. Christel Yardley / WAIKATO TIMES

Don't disrespect Judge Noel Cocurullo's court, just ask Tyson Donaldson

The operators of Huntly's Rotowaro mine have welcomed proposed Resource Management Act changes that will “put coal mining on the same regulatory footing as all other mining”.

Jacob Simonsen, a Danish national who claimed to be a ‘diplomat' in New Zealand and ‘not liable to any form of arrest or detention'.

Changes aimed at moving whānau with tamariki out of emergency housing motels faster kick in this week.