Labour is promising to make cervical screening free for everyone, if elected, through its previously-announced Medicard scheme. Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said the move would help prevent ...

NZ First leader Winston Peters says the party’s bill that would ban the public sale and use of fireworks would be a bottom line in any future coalition agreement. This is the issue you pick to be a ...

The Government is considering a crackdown on inner-city homelessness. Rumours of an impending move to criminalise homelessness emerged earlier this week, prompting Opposition MPs to question Prime ...

A naked pensioner was arrested after he was spotted riding through an upmarket Auckland street. Police were called to Tamaki Drive about 1.40pm today after reports of a naked man riding a bicycle in ...

Amazing story at Radio NZ, where they turn the fact that there are heaps fewer kids growing up in motels into a bad news story!

Something I have been interested in is trying to get a better understanding of what life was like for Maori in New Zealand before Abel Tasman made contact in 1642. By then Maori had been in New ...

It seems clear that the Tamihere faction wants to expel Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Takuta Ferris from Te Pati Maori, and possibly to also waka jump them from Parliament, causing by-elections. At first ...

I have just had the privilege of spending a week on Hamilton Island off the north Queensland Coast. It was easy to get to - Auckland-Sydney-Hamilton Island (where 5 significant flights arrive every ...

The long-delayed International Convention Centre in Auckland has formally been handed over to SkyCity several years behind schedule. It marks a major milestone in a project, that when works began in ...

The 2025 Marsden Fund grants have been announced, and finally they are now overwhelmingly going on hard science, rather than politics. I've updated my comparison table below. As the Royal Society got ...

November 4, 2025 8:00am by Kokila PatelGeneral Debate 04 November 2025 ...

But Ottrey had only positive things to say about the Prime Minister, remarking that Luxon - who used to lead Air New Zealand as chief executive - was "so great at engaging" with her team and and other ...