The Epsom candidates for Labour, the Greens and National have thrown some support behind ACT leader David Seymour's campaign to buy land in the electorate for a new school.

Body would be modelled on climate panel and recognise inequality as a global challenge threatening world security

Proposals aim to push people into work, but charities say families are still paying price of austerity cuts and rise in cost of living

A university admissions scheme aimed at building the Māori and Pacific medical workforce has found itself at the centre of a political debate.

Health insurance became the largest category of disputes investigated by the Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme for the first time in the year to June.

More whistleblowers have contacted RNZ with fresh allegations of Education Ministry managers actively trying to avoid scrutiny via the Official Information Act.

Vice President JD Vance's White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud estimates the action will save roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies.

A review team has found that successful delivery for an alternative Waitematā harbour crossing in Auckland appears feasible.

Councillors say it is "vital" people share their views before a final decision is made.

Authorities accuse Ukraine of trying to disrupt poll and say 1,600 drones in total intercepted, while at least two people killed and oil refinery damaged

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

The Waitangi Tribunal says the government's rewrite of the school curriculum was ideological, aided by people hostile to Māori knowledge, and breached multiple Treaty principles.

National's push to drive competition in the supermarket sector by breaking up one of the key players has drawn stinging criticism from the country's leading business groups.

What? How can I be optimistic when so many are doing it tough?

Pacific households in New Zealand will be the hardest hit by scheduled benefit cuts and social housing rent increases, according to officials.

The Act Party will campaign on a three-year minimum wage freeze.

Argentine President Javier Milei is preparing legislation this week to toughen sanctions against companies operating in the Falkland Islands, a move analysts say raises uncertainty over whether he may...

The rapper performed his song “Hind’s Hall” while opening for Sheeran at Metlife Stadium earlier this month, where he told the crowd, “Free Palestine.”

This is the second to last week that Parliament is sitting before it rises for the election.

Exclusive: New details underscoring depth of relationship between billionaire and party revealed in first episode of Guardian podcast The Populist

Regardless of the uncertainties surrounding the Iran war and the US administration, New Zealand officials six months on are hopeful - confident, even - that supply chains will hold. In the first of th...

The Department of Internal Affairs says about $28 million has been misspent by pokie trusts, with $11.5m so far recovered.

One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway repeatedly warned his counterpart they were going too fast.

The payments totalled more than $2 million.

Karina Atkins has applied for 331 jobs since she was laid off last year.

Health NZ apologises for Brent Horsburgh’s 9-hour 18-minute wait without seeing a doctor, admits he could have survived.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's planned Republican convention speech in Dallas is raising questions about how politics could affect market confidence in him.

Husband-and-wife owners of award-winning business say online criticism has gone too far.

The 4,000 job cuts cannot be compared to a VW-like existential crisis and, as JLR presents them, are about staying competitive

If inflation remains stubbornly high in Australia, we can expect interest rates to rise and asset prices to go down. But it's that exact scenario that risks putting the global economy on the trajector...

Peters' comments to Breakfast come a day after his party announced superannuation would only be available to citizens under its plan.

Schools and councils express financial concerns as EHCP applications surge before potential change in provision

The current coalition government would be returned to power based on the results of a new poll, with Opportunity unable to breach the threshold and become kingmaker.

New Zealand is in the middle of an energy transition

New Zealand First wants to limit eligibility criteria to New Zealand citizens only.