Wellington bar owner Greig Wilson is in a dispute with the Wellington City Council after being told he couldn't distribute pamphlets advertising his bars during O-week at Victoria University. Wilson s ...

An Auckland-based Canadian billionaire previously linked to an alternative news venture has taken a substantial shareholding in NZME, the owner of the NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB and BusinessDesk. In a ...

Two criminal lawyers have clashed over whether a sandwich should have been eaten in an interview room with allegations flying between both sides as to how the matter unfolded - and who said what.

Phil Goff’s position as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom is now “untenable” Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters’ office says, off the back of “deeply disappointing” comments the former ...

Adrian Orr has resigned as Reserve Bank Governor. I normally try to highlight the good as well as the bad when someone resigns, but I have to admit in this case I struggle. I welcomed his appointment ...

Police have issued a formal warning over Te Pāti Māori's failure to file audited financial statements to the Electoral Commission last year. The party filed an incomplete 2023 statement in ...

Violent crime levels were steady until 2018. Then Labour’s policy of trying to reduce the prison population hit, and there was a massive 50% increase in just five years. The drop in 2024 of almost ...

The Government is clamping down on retail crime by giving businesses more powers to detain those stealing from them, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee say.

Principals from schools in the country's poorest communities have united to call for an end to new NCEA reading, writing and maths tests. They warn the online tests will create a generation of ...

The future of a proposed law that would force Facebook and Google to help fund the New Zealand journalism that contributes to their megabillion-dollar empires appears uncertain, in the wake of Donald ...