Health has become the latest Election 2026 battleground, with Labour accusing Health Minister Simeon Brown of avoiding public scrutiny as pressure mounts over hospital staffing, healthcare costs, ...

South Coast residents have confronted officials over the future of Wellington’s troubled Moa Point Wastewater Treatment Plant, as Tiaki Wai and Wellington City Council move to rebuild public ...

Immigration has exploded into a major Election 2026 battleground, with New Zealand First and Labour unveiling sharply different plans for who should be allowed to settle in Aotearoa, how long […] ...

The Tertiary Education Union is launching a fierce attack on ACT’s plan to ultimately abolish the Waitangi Tribunal, warning the proposal would remove an important mechanism for holding governments ...

A person has died following a devastating house fire on Matakana Island in the Bay of Plenty, with emergency services responding to the blaze in the early hours of Saturday […] ...

The political fallout from the Ministry of Social Development payment debacle is widening, with Labour demanding greater accountability from the Prime Minister and Social Development Minister, the ...

A long-awaited transformation of Whangārei Hospital has reached a major milestone, with the first sod turned on a redevelopment that will deliver a new acute services building, a 158-bed ward […] ...

Green Party MP Hūhana Lyndon is putting whānau wellbeing, equitable public services and the cost of living firmly into the election conversation as fresh revelations about thousands of wrongly ...

The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa is calling on the New Zealand Government to ban imports linked to Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank, arguing Aotearoa is falling behind ...

Untreated hearing loss is emerging as a major health, social and economic issue, with new research suggesting it is costing New Zealand more than $1 billion every year. New Zealand […] ...

More than 180 Māori idioms have been brought together in a new book aimed at strengthening the richness, creativity and everyday use of te reo Māori. Respected Māori academic, language […] ...

ACT leader David Seymour has unveiled a sweeping plan to dramatically reshape the Waitangi Tribunal, promising to end its jurisdiction over contemporary Crown policy and ultimately wind the Tribunal ...