New Zealand has listened and voted, awarding Simon Bridges' slip of the tongue as this year's best quote in Massey University's annual Quote of the Year award.In July, the leader of the Opposition accidentally referred to his deputy...

COMMENT BY AUDREY YOUNG The headline forecast in the latest set of Government accounts of a mere $1.7 billion surplus in the current year should be very helpful to Finance Minister Grant Robertson.It should put a sock in some...

The Treasury is expecting the Government's 2019 surplus to be $2 billion less than it had previously been forecast due to "timing issues".It today released its Half Yearly Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU), which showed the surplus...

Labour MP Duncan Webb was thoroughly checked - and cleared - for drugs this morning as part of a demonstration from a Corrections dog newly trained in detecting synthetic cannabis."I am slightly nervous," Webb said as he sat in...

Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, Andrew Little, today welcomed Te Ariki Tā Tumu Te Heuheu and members of Ngāti Tūwharetoa to Parliament to witness the Third Reading of their Treaty Settlement legislation, the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill.

New Zealand First has welcomed the passage of the Ngāti Tūwharetoa Claims Settlement Bill, which represents the full and final settlement of historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of the central North Island iwi Ngāti Tūwharetoa.

New Zealand households are struggling to get ahead, based on the latest fiscal and economic projections, making a mockery of the Coalition’s claims to be a ‘transformational Government’, National’s Finance spokesperson Amy Adams says.

National Party leader Simon Bridges is calling the Prime Minister "dishonest by omission" and demanding she release the text message she received from Richie Hardcore, a supporter of hers and a friend of controversial Czech drug-smuggler...

New Zealand will begin phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from 2020 as part of an international effort expected to avoid 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming.

Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Winston Peters announced today that New Zealand will take up the chair of the Missile Technology Control Regime later next year.

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".