ACC says a new turnaround plan will restore its finances without making it harder for people to get cover. But many claimants say they've already been unfairly cut off.

Unsubstantiated reports of attendees being jabbed with needles spread like wildfire at a Raglan music festival last weekend.

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

We’ve got good news for nostalgia-seeking millennials; Scrubs and Malcolm in the Middle are returning in 2026 with (almost) all of their original casts. Back in the 2000s, Malcolm in the Middle ...

Of course, every politician talks up their chances ahead of an election, but this doesn’t seem like an act. Hipkins believes that Labour can win this thing. He says they intend to do “significantly ...

The late election date gives the coalition extra time for the economy to turn – and for the opposition to hammer home its message that NZ needs a change.

States of emergency have been declared in multiple regions, evacuations are ongoing and one person is missing.

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

It’s election year! But when’s the last day you can enrol to vote? When’s the last day you can switch from the general roll to the Māori roll or vice versa? When can you start voting from overseas? We ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...