Jacinda Ardern has five days to respond to the Ombudsman over the secret 33-page document.

Sir John Key said he'd killed a "mass surveillance" programme - yet it kept on going.

The Ombudsman has ordered the Ministry of Education to explain itself.

Inside National MP Jian Yang's citizenship file - and the pledge he made to New Zealand.

MFAT never got legal advice about the risks of a Saudi sheep deal, new documents show.

KPMG report vindicates HDC Chief Executive. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Ombudsman cites "public disquiet" over case in criticising redaction of documents.

Investigation found a female officer failed to maintain boundaries with a male prisoner.

COMMENT: The bizarre events at the Ministry of Transport could end up shaking up politics.

Previously withheld information on Peter Thiel's citizenship will be released tomorrow.

Government's shake-up of post-quake Canterbury schools mishandled, Chief Ombudsman finds

Safety problems appear to have extended across the RNZAF and not just fatal squadron.

There is government tension over the Official Information Act.

COMMENT: Researchers seek reports into fish reporting and dumping.

Researchers say a government agency holds more than 100 reports into alleged fish dumping.

The military's ability to care for the bodies of those who die abroad is under question.

Evidence was destroyed supporting Defence Force claims a damning report was inaccurate.

Ten years in Afghanistan and the only review into the mission was shelved.

Hamilton City Council opened up its previously closed council workshops for the first time - except it forgot to tell anyone about it.

The Chief Ombudsman is warning Government agencies, that those who don't comply with the Official Information Act will face public embarrassment.

As New Zealanders are well aware, but probably Australians are not, many of these people who are detained are not Kiwis in any real sense.

The Ombudsman has been asked to review a refusal to release a copy of the investigation into a second case of alleged undeclared conflict of interest.

At least two more schools have been investigated after complaints about seclusion rooms - including one that was eventually closed.

New Zealanders could be vulnerable to fraud and theft if they meet the wrong person online.

The Ministry of Education has put schools on notice: stop using cell-like seclusion rooms as punishment immediately.

Education Minister Hekia Parata revealed that 8 of the 64 special schools in New Zealand are using a seclusion room.

The Chief Ombudsman will investigate the use of seclusion rooms in schools, following reports that locked "time out" rooms had been used to restrain children.

An independent inquiry should immediately investigate the use of "time out" rooms in schools, says the head of the national Autism charity.

Angry parents say they will pull their children from a Wellington school caught using a "time-out" room for naughty pupils unless there is more accountability.

A bank has been told to pay a woman more than $13,000 after she lost not only her home in a mortgagee sale but items including family pictures.