The Labour leader thinks he’s found a path to victory. He just needs his MPs to stick to the game plan. Chris Hipkins returned from summer with a pep in his step. He’s in love ...

The application was declined in error, but one advocate says a 'tightening' of government hardship grants has seen more people turn to food banks.

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. It’s one of those books that stays with you, not because it explains everything, but because it doesn’t. The language is clean and direct – Hemingway’s famous ...

They do so at a fraction of the cost of other modes. Though some commentators seem to think the cost of cycle paths is outrageous, Auckland Transport is investing $69m of its $1.5bn capital budget in ...

Auckland is already one of the most diverse cities in the southern hemisphere. Ethnic minority communities make up over 40% of its population, and they are younger, more likely to be in family-forming ...

Drenched Northland may again get the worst of it, but Coromandel and the Bay of Plenty are being warned to prepare as well.

An important update: the official Spinoff election date prediction has been confirmed by a man named Christopher Luxon.

The prime minister’s country tally is just one clue to an election year in which the outside world will play a big role.

New Zealand’s military budgets, which the prime minister noted in his speech on Monday as he acknowledged. the “rupturing” of the rules-based system, as well as the “rising risk” of a “dangerous ...

Europe’s threatened “trade bazooka” against the US over Greenland sounds like something out of a comic book, but the ricochet could be deadly serious for the rest of the world – even a small, ...

There was no cheering. No laughter. A smattering of claps broke out at the mention of the free trade deal with India – a reaction that caught Luxon off guard – and there was some perfunctory applause ...

We both put 8% into KiwiSaver for retirement, because we believe superannuation will be long gone by the time we hit 65.' ...