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OPINION Police Minister Mark Mitchell was right to extend the timeline on recruiting 500 new police officers last week. But he was only right for a matter of...

Tensions and short-lived protests greeted the leaders of the three Government coalition parties today as they spoke at the marae on the Waitangi Treaty...

Being a government minister is harder than it looks. Parliament is a tough master of its governments. This week a clutch of ministers made mea culpas, and one is learning fast just how hard it can be.

An area resident has been cited with breaking the city of Grantville’s production filming ordinance after a request for police body camera footage degenerated into name-calling and threats.

Chlöe Swarbrick has announced she will run to be the next co-leader of the Green Party. It comes after current co-leader James Shaw announced...

Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick has announced she will run for the Green Party’s leadership.  
Swarbrick confirmed she would contest the co-leadership position fr

After discussing the city administrator situation and the Capital Improvement Plan, the Marshalltown city council moved on to assessed property valuations — w

OPINION The briefings to the new Government released this week painted a picture of a country suffering from deferred maintenance – in some cases, quite...

The Government has been given an estimate of the predicted cost and chaos of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami hitting off the coast of Hawke’s Bay - a

Concerns over gangs, ram raids, migration numbers and disassociation from school following Covid-19 have been raised by government department officials in