“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

A new study linking lower nurse staffing on surgical wards with higher rates of post-operative deaths has raised urgent new questions about NZ’s settings.

Staff were informed of the outcome of the restructure the same day the CEO resigned.

Christopher Luxon points to Wong's land tax when ruling out Opportunity.

ACT leader David Seymour has hinted his party's upcoming fiscal plan will once again contain a commitment to raise the superannuation age to 67.

‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed

Recovery of tigers, tuna and green sea turtles show nature loss can be reversed when action taken, charity says Conservation comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and green​ sea turtles prove that global nature loss can be reversed, ​scientists have said. ​But a report warns food production must be the next ​“positive tipping point​” if the world is to avert biodiversity collapse. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) analysed nearly 36,000 animal populations and more than 5,000 species, producing the largest ever database of vertebrate wildlife. Scientists found populations had declined by an average of 73% since 1970, showing that “nature continues to be degraded at an alarming scale”, with “no sign of losses slowing”. Continue reading...

A Defence Force commander warned New Zealand would be cut off from information exchanges within the Five Eyes intelligence group if it did not sign up to build a new digital super-system.

The charity-owned childcare giant pays another $36m to its rich-lister founders.

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OPINION: Covid-19 has resulted in redundancies among scientists, at a time when we need them most.

Labour and the Greens have labelled National's promise to drug test unemployed beneficiaries cruel and deplorable, while Winston Peters has warned it borders on fascist.

National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".

Over time and taken to its logical end-point, Descartes’ ‘thinking self’ became the property-owning, rights-bearing, cost benefit-calculating individual so beloved by neoliberal economists.

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

National is promising to introduce random drug testing for those on the jobseeker benefit to ensure they're "ready for work".

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Today from The Detail: The Cornell rape allegations - why the case has gone viral and why women worldwide are saying "I'm Jane Doe"

Few people on Earth have seen a polymetallic nodule 4 kilometres under the ocean, but Rob McCallum is one of them.

New Zealand was once a world leader on pay equity. Dame Marilyn Waring explains how the government wound back decades of progress – and why the fight to properly value women’s work is far from over. ...

“Seventeen Māori leaders spoke up a week ago ‘calling for an end to race-baiting and racist comments in our countries’ election campaigns’. They pointed at New Zealand First, Act and National — but, i...

As Ted Schuur stepped along the edges of Smith Lake, a bubble surfaced from the muck underfoot. And then another. They're bubbles of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas made from decomposing plants an...

When the Luxon-led coalition took office nearly three years ago, its war on climate policy started within days. In the next three years the government made a bewildering number of…

Special report: NZ's first convicted would-be spy thought he was playing a fascist James Bond, only to learn he was actually Johnny English.