Paul Henry is performing, before the meeting at Westport’s NBS Theatre even starts. About 60 people trickle in, greeting acquaintances and settling into their seats. A woman walks across the front ...

Opportunity candidate Jodie Kuntzsch discusses balancing Nelson's major fishing port and a policy to phase out bottom trawling ...

Winston Peters makes a Freudian slip and mentions his life expectancy at the Powerbrokers' Debate ...

Oriini Kaipara has accused critics of racism over her visit to a Mongrel Mob pad, as a new poll puts the incumbent just two points ahead of Labour challenger Kerrin Leoni ...

Proposed regulatory changes and potential political shifts pose a risk to the value of retirement village and property sector shares. Alice Peacock reports.

In a rare move, the organisation tasked with investigating potential miscarriages of justice has referred the case at the centre of a long-running Newsroom investigation to the Court of Appeal ...

One could easily argue that Māori writers have always been more willing than most to place the act of dreaming at the heart of our storytelling. In her 1984 essay ‘Myth, Omen, Ghost and Dream’, Keri ...

Watching Donald Trump from our side of the globe, it can be difficult to know what drives his decision-making. New Zealanders can perhaps take some solace, then, in the fact that American experts like ...

As we enter the final fortnight of the election campaign, NZ political parties are still struggling to get out of first gear ...

Comment: Opportunity Party’s main objective at the election must be to win seats in Parliament, and to show it’s not just a flash in the pan, argues Peter Dunne ...

Comment: Every party has a plan for the supermarket aisle but none has one for the imported fuel that raises every price on the shelf, writes Kirsten Corson ...

NZ rents are showing tentative signs of recovery. BNZ's chief economist Mike Jones examines the narrowing cost gap between buying and renting, and what comes next.