The greyhound racing industry body has tipped itself into liquidation three months after the country’s last legal race took ...

Te Tai Hauāuru is not an easy electorate to predict, with local relationships, iwi affiliations and personal loyalties often carrying as much weight as national politics. This year’s contest is ...

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Comment: In the lead-up to the election, our largest political parties have been silent on prisons despite recent grim findings of Prison Inspectorate and Ombudsman reports. These document ...

A thoughtful intervention at a political debate in Christchurch came not from the candidates and MPs but from an expert panellist ...

The Black Ferns completed their busiest season since the glorious 2022 World Cup triumph by winning 10 of 11 tests, with one heartbreak against England ...

Otago economist Dennis Wesselbaum discusses why politicians are missing the underlying productivity crisis in election economic debates.

Her appointments were viewed as a harbinger that the law had woken up and was about to welcome a new age of women in positions of power. In May last year, Chief Justice Dame Helen Winkelmann invoked ...

Labour's path to power is narrow. Opportunity must get 5%, National's overhang must fade and Q must choose Hipkins over Luxon.

The Cabinet Manual discourages ministers from using personal email, but Christopher Luxon used a non-government AI account for work as PM.

Comment: Can anyone govern a city in which the police advise politicians not to name criminals or terrorist sympathisers, wonders Dr Oliver Hartwich ...

In the southern French port city they came close to heavily armed, “menacing” police and saw stores trashed and looted. With teargas stinging their eyes, Wellingtonians Nadezhda Macey and Theo ...