PM's response to hikoi: Visit to Ihumātao 'a matter of timing' Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will go to Ihumātao - but not until the stand-off between iwi and Fletchers is over. Hundreds of people marched for six hours in the......

The Hamilton-to-Auckland rail service has been given the go-ahead with funding of more than $90 million announced today. Transport Minister Phil Twyford said the money would allow the project to make headway in the middle of next year. It will start......

Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard will look at whether people making submissions on proposed law changes should be forced to disclose conflicts of interest. The gap in the rules has been highlighted after RNZ exposed the controversy over the links......

Helping people age well, retaining a more active lifestyle in the process, is the focus of a new $5 million fund. And a handy smartphone app is just one of the ways in which the money will be used to help do that. The funding from the Ministry of......

The government has committed $14.5 million more over four years for on-the-job literacy and numeracy training. Employers can apply for support from the existing fund to hire specialist trainers to deliver approved courses in the workplace. The new......

A refugee advocate is calling on the prime minister to match her rhetoric and scrap a "racist" family-link resettlement policy. The policy was introduced by National a decade ago and means refugees from the Middle East and Africa are only......

The man convicted of assaulting Green Party co-leader James Shaw has reappeared in the Wellington District Court for a disputed facts hearing. The 47-year-old, who has name suppression, admitted one charge of injuring Mr Shaw with intent and was convicted......

Strict word limits for Māori translations of local body election candidate profiles is a form of "institutional racism" and should be changed, a candidate says. Napier businessman James Crow, who is running for the city council and the Hawke's......

Helen Clark has sounded a warning over the country's growing tourism industry and what it means for climate change. Hundreds of people packed Christchurch Town Hall last night to hear from Ms Clark, who brings eight years experience from the UN,......

They're among the most important leaders in the country and can make decisions that can have huge impacts on our communities. So why are so many positions in the upcoming local government elections, including several mayor's jobs, not even......