More assets - including a Coatsville mansion - connected with alleged pirate Kim Dotcom seized.

The industrial action centres on plans to contract out jobs at the Ports of Auckland.

Brittle concrete columns were a main cause of the 113 deaths in Christchurch's CTV building in the February 2011 earthquake.

But carrier remains in the red in its consolidated result. Profit soars at parent company Telstra, but not as much as analysts had picked.

Mercury Energy's average power bill increase of 5.8% will take effect from April 1 this year.