Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister for Veterans Ron Mark say they were honoured to be with the families of service personnel as they welcomed their loved ones home.

Council of Trade Unions Secretary Sam Huggard said that it was disappointing that NZEI Te Riu Roa learning support specialists directly employed by the Ministry of Education had to take industrial action today to get a decent pay offer.

COMMENT: In another massive piece of virtue signalling, MPs' wages are frozen because the system under which they operate doesn't work. You can't complain about it because who would listen. You can't argue against it because...

COMMENT: There's so much about politics that raises the hackles when all the dog really needs is a bone and we all end up wondering what all the fuss was about.There were a few gnarling their teeth around Parliament yesterday after...

COMMENT: The coalition Government is helping business modernise our economy to be fit for purpose for the 21st century.This means being smarter in how we work, lifting the value of what we produce and export, supporting the environment,...

COMMENT: The saying, "We reap what we sow", highlights the farming experience that if you don't work in partnership with nature, you get a dud crop. It comes to mind when I think about the latest twist in the crime and punishment...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters is heading to Canberra on Tuesday for talks with his counterpart where two sensitive issues are expected to be raised: detention of New Zealanders without charge, and offshore asylum seekers.Peters...

The government is currently undertaking a review of the way in which water, stormwater and wastewater services are delivered, regulated and funded ("the Three Waters Review").

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will travel to Australia tomorrow to meet with Australian counterparts in Canberra.

Cabinet minister Phil Twyford’s revelation that the government has no limit on the amount of debt it might run up makes a mockery of Grant Robertson’s fiscal responsibility rules, National’s finance spokesperson Amy Adams says.

If the public votes in favour of legalising cannabis in a referendum, a National-led government would change the law accordingly, National Party leader Simon Bridges says.

National wants the head of an inquiry into Wally Haumaha's appointment as deputy police commissioner to step down or be sacked.

Hundreds of students from Sri Lanka could be here illegally, while officials do what they can to investigate claims of fraud in the student visa scheme.

Government agencies have been asked to urgently find ways to reduce the harm caused by synthetic cannabis.

The government wants public input on a set of well-being indicators it intends to incorporate into all future Budgets.

Prime Minister Bill English has confirmed disgraced MP Todd Barclay offered to play him the tape recording that led to his downfall.

A fourth-term National Government will further cut taxes and raise incomes, Prime Minister Bill English has said in a speech to lift party faithful after a horror week.

Major political parties have found a way around electoral campaign rules by calling hundreds of public meetings across the country.

OPINION: Some National Party supporters may have worried when former leader John Key stepped down as leader.

OPINION: MPs like to claim their party alone gets "the issues real New Zealanders care about".