The passenger rail plan includes routes from Auckland to Wellington, Christchurch to Dunedin and extending the current Te Huia train to Tauranga.

The Greens are proposing a $4.02b passenger rail plan spanning Auckland, Wellington, Tauranga, Christchurch and Dunedin.

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A long-serving city councillor fighting to save his name and job has been discharged without conviction after appealing his family violence matter.

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A long-serving city councillor fighting to save his name and job has been discharged without conviction after appealing his family violence matter.

Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.

Renee Good's family sued ICE agent Jonathan Ross, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and Tom Homan on 1 October, over her killing in Minneapolis advanced a conspiracy against Somali and Hispanic Minnesotans....

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The PHCC survey of political parties reveals there is limited recognition across all parties that broader tax reform is needed to improve public health, reduce poverty and inequities.

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

The last general practitioner of a clinic for 4500 patients in Horowhenua has resigned.

Specialists who diagnose cancers are warning that backlogs are resulting in an unacceptable five-week delay.

Jason Winstanley has been named as RNZ's new chief executive and will take up the role in 2027.

The 1News Verian poll result would give the party 19 MPs if repeated in November’s election.

If they flip the House, Democrats say they’re ready to confront Israel on human rights. The issue has long challenged the party, pitting staunch Israel defenders against more liberal lawmakers crit…

A new advocacy group has launched with the aim of giving parents a more organised voice in New Zealand's ongoing debates around education. The Parents' Alliance says it wants to be evidence-based and ...

A right-wing lobby group has defended its use of false names when lodging Official Information Act requests, saying the practice is necessary and in the public interest.