China's embassy in New Zealand has expressed its "strong dissatisfaction" over a visit to Taiwan by a cross-parliamentary group of MPs. A lengthy statement posted by the embassy accused the MPs of ...

The Canadian election is on Monday (Tuesday NZ time) and the Liberal Party has gone from being 20% behind a few months ago and facing a loss of well over 100 seats to leading in most polls and ...

TVNZ says it cut a story featuring an anonymous Destiny Church whistleblower from the digital version of a 1News bulletin out of an “abundance of caution”. Some viewers claim the whistleblower’s face ...

You could almost hear the sighs of relief from Waipū, Paihia, Whangārei and Kerikeri yesterday when Transport Minister Chris Bishop revealed the earmarked route for a four-lane highway. ... This road ...

The latest NZ Crime and Victims Survey has found a massive drop in the number of New Zealanders who say they were the victim of a violent (including sexual) crime in the last year. Now recall these ...

Climate change is no longer a top threat for the defence force in its latest spending plan. ... It marks a departure from the 2019 Defence Capability Plan, which identified climate change as a key ...

The “standard” sentence for murder in New Zealand is life imprisonment with a minimum non parole period (NPP) of ten years. This can be increased at the sentencing Judge’s discretion. For murder with ...

A guest post by Lucy Rogers: I knew immediately on the day of my arrest that there was something terribly wrong with police oversight and accountability structures in this country, and said as much in ...

Pope Francis has died aged 88. He was Pope for 12 years, a Cardinal for 24 years, Archbishop for 27 years and a Bishop for 32 years. He was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio and was the first Jesuit Pope. He ...

New revelations this week show Te Pāti Māori still hasn’t produced an auditor’s report for its 2023 financial statements of political donations. The party told the Electoral Commission that a “delay ...

I regret to inform you that cultural reports are back, wearing a wig and a false mustache. In March 2024, Parliament passed the Legal Services Amendment Bill, which abolished public legal aid funding ...