Stories by Guyon Espiner

Corrections appears to have broken the law by keeping two women in a segregation unit for four months at Auckland Region Women's Correctional Facility, a human rights lawyer says.

Two men were granted immunity for murder and rape in exchange for a story that sent Gail Maney to prison for life. Should they have been? Guyon Espiner investigates.

The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner reports.

Iran is threatening legal action against New Zealand after learning the SIS broke into its Wellington embassy to plant bugs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Despite a legal battle, the names of those charged in the NZ First Foundation fraud case remain suppressed. As Guyon Espiner reports, the foundation has been shrouded in secrecy from the start.

A former Corrections officer says someone impersonated him to fabricate evidence in the case of convicted murderer Gail Maney.

The SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father but failed to lodge a complaint with the police, effectively allowing the abuse to continue for years, a former spy says.

Corrections admits it has opened itself up to the possibility of legal action as it may have broken the law by confining women to their cells for more than 23 hours a day.

New Zealand's largest women's prison has a "punitive culture" where guards are too quick to resort to force and women's health needs go unmet because of a lack of staff, according to an internal…

An imprisoned gang member organised a bar tab for Corrections guards drinking at a pub after hours, in an attempt to corrupt them.

A man labelled one of New Zealand's most notorious killers has lodged an appeal against the murders featured in hit podcast Gone Fishing.

Four people have been let in from Australia to work on an all-weather horse-racing track in Cambridge, sparking questions about what the government is prioritising during the pandemic.

More than $10 million is going to a horse track in the middle of NZ's second largest city, despite officials saying Christchurch is ineligible for PGF funding.

The foreign minister directed Antarctica New Zealand to give two highly-prized spots on a trip to the continent to two women closely linked to one of South East Asia's richest families.

The SIS broke into the Indian High Commission for MI6 and the Iranian Embassy for the CIA in the late 1980s and early 1990s to photograph code books, plant bugs and steal communications.

New Zealand has been "drawn in a lot closer" to the US-led spy network, the former prime minister says.

The Service - The senior Labour politician was spied on while he was as an MP, even when he had an oversight role of the intelligence agency.

The Service - The security intelligence agencies broke into the Czechoslovakian Embassy in Wellington during the Cold War to steal secret codes.

The SIS minister will not say if he has been asked to sign off on warrants allowing the SIS to break in to foreign embassies in New Zealand.

The KGB tried to penetrate government systems and infiltrate the ruling Labour Party, the former prime minister says.

Tens of thousands in donor's funds given to the New Zealand First Foundation were spent paying expenses, wages and bills for people closely associated with the New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

New Zealand First has once again opted not to name any donations from the mysterious foundation bankrolling the party on its electoral return.

Leaked documents show the government is preparing for an extra 300,000 benefit applications, as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens widespread unemployment.

Pharmac's decision to backtrack on funding Keytruda is a major blow for equality in New Zealand's health system, a leading oncologist says.

Women at an Auckland prison have been routinely confined to their cells for periods of up to 29 hours at a stretch - well outside the law, which says they should get at least one hour out of their…