Councils under fire from locals, furious at the risk to water quality, human health and the potential stench, reports Jill Herron.

The chief ombudsman John Allen has requested an urgent meeting with the head of the Education Ministry.

Hundreds of private water supplies across Canterbury are in areas with elevated nitrate levels, but ECan says those affected should pay for their own water treatment.

Waitangi Tribunal finds seven Te Tiriti breaches in the NCEA overhaul. Unions call for the rollout to halt, while Minister Erica Stanford defends the reforms.

New Zealand First released a health policy on Sunday that is largely copy-and-pasted from a charitable trust called Make New Zealand Healthy.

We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

The three bills went through first reading on a rare Saturday sitting.

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Historians count the cost of a proposed restructure at the National Library and Archives NZ

A nurse at Gisborne Hospital says the emergency department (ED) is in a state of "absolute chaos" due to ongoing staffing shortages and the surge of winter illnesses.

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The Green Party is campaigning on establishing a publicly owned supermarket chain to break up the duopoly and drive down food prices.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Henry spoke to 60 supporters beneath Confederate flag in a pub that burned Ardern's book.

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

Government ministers have admitted the changes to upcoming fuel tax increases will mean extra borrowing.

A police officer has been charged with sexually abusing a child.

People and businesses asking for fast track approval of their projects have donated almost exclusively to National and NZ First.