Mighty River Power chief executive Doug Heffernan is NZ's highest-paid government employee with a $1.32m package.

District health boards have asked the Government to "review" the right of health workers to strike, saying patients are being harmed.

Thousands of workers to protest proposed new laws in 28 towns from Kaitaia to Bluff today.

The country's most elected local government politician, Warren Flaunty, has struck a problem - how to be in two places at once.