When Auckland Council’s performance and appointments committee made the decision on a new chair for its giant subsidiary Watercare, it was behind closed doors. The vote was taken with the mayor, his ...

George Constanza's life on Seinfeld took a turn for the better when he began doing the opposite to his normal choices. Photo: Getty Images Comment: There is an episode of Seinfeld in which George ...

Opinion: The controversial Treaty Principles Bill proposed by Act Party leader David Seymour has been criticised by many, but little light has been cast so far on the real threat it poses to New ...

Wellington shopper Elvira George would rather drive 40 minutes to Kmart in Porirua than visit her local Warehouse store five minutes down the road. The Miramar hairdresser used to pop in to the ...

'Question Time – a name derived from the question it raises of “what is the point of all this?”' Photo: Parliamentary Service Opinion: I found myself watching some pieces of parliamentary theatre ...

Analysis: New climate projections from Niwa offer for the first time an extremely local look at how New Zealand’s temperature and weather patterns may change as the world continues to warm. The new ...

The central problem I have with Paddy Gower’s autobiography This is the F#$%ing News is that he didn’t f#$%ing write it. There’s a laziness and a complacency to this as-told-to exercise, an indulgence ...

'Although all our universities are based in urban areas the debate continues to centre on which of them is best positioned to deliver rural health outcomes.' Photo: Supplied Expert opinion from ...

RNZ soars in online audience, why US owners should give TV3 to Stuff, and NZ Herald meets Chinese propaganda minister ...

It’s a pity New Zealand no longer has the once thriving gold mining industry it previously boasted towards the later part of the 19th century when the country was still in its infancy. Were it still ...

The move to give police search powers in private homes to look for gang insignia has raised a mass of red flags with law makers. Photo: Lynn Grieveson The controversial Gangs Bill has passed its third ...

Tokomaru Bay: 'The images of forestry slash piled up on bridges and beaches were dramatic but also without much explanation or context...' Photo: Aaron Smale It took me years to finally go back home.