A businesswoman, who is a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, has appealed an order requiring her to return $11.2 million to a Maori land trust.

A Rotorua sawmilling magnate - whose $28 million divorce wrangle has big implications for trusts - is trying to take the case to the Supreme Court.

Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick says two recent reports which show the city's economic future is on the up is "what I've been waiting for".

Ian Raynel credits a lot of the changes he's seen over the past 50 years in his job for making his work easier.

A university academic says Fletcher Tabuteau's Private Member's Bill drawn from the ballot yesterday "throws down the gauntlet to National and Labour on foreign investors' rights to sue".