The Latest Breaking News from DoC

The U.S. Justice Department says Louisiana's prison system routinely holds people beyond their release dates

When the country’s scarce wetlands go up in smoke, an unknown - but enormous - quantity of CO2 ends up in the atmosphere.

As private helipads (and applications for them) proliferate around Auckland and two Hauraki Gulf islands, the big question is why city officials seem so reluctant to do anything to stop them.

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a condemned inmate's spiritual advisor cannot be inside the death chamber during his execution on Thursday

Conservation group fears a flood of applications is “a rush to develop the high country”

DOC says it’s a complex process in need of robustness and accuracy, but supporters of a proposed marine reserve are ‘deeply frustrated’ at bureaucratic hold-ups.

The OPEC+ alliance plays an instrumental role in supporting market stability, said OPEC Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais on the sixth anniversary of the group’s formation. The Declaration of Cooperation (DoC) is an unprecedented collaborative framework of 23 oil-producing countries that is based on trust, mutual respect and dialogue, Al…

Beyond These Walls, a trans-led group out of the Pacific Northwest, provides reentry services for LGBTQ individuals leaving prison.

The Department of Corrections (DoC) will allow inmates to watch broadcasts of the football World Cup 2022 in prisons across the country.

The ECHO chats to John Aldridge about his close friend David Johnson after the former Liverpool striker's passing was confirmed

The removal of back country huts in Te Urewera has brought tensions simmering within Tūhoe to the surface.