Education Minister Chris Hipkins has congratulated 180 New Zealanders who have been awarded prestigious Prime Minister’s Scholarships for Asia (PMSA) as part of the second 2017/18 round.

The National Party has expressed shock after the government ditched two of its key police policies - and it is calling for them to be reinstated.

The Government needs to shrink their ownership of farms through Landcorp and use them to give young Kiwi farmers the opportunity to lease and ultimately own some of these farms, National Party spokesperson for Agriculture Nathan Guy says.

Victoria University criminology professor Dr. Liam Martin will be speaking at a rally organised by People Against Prisons Aotearoa (PAPA) in Wellington to oppose the building of a 600 bed unit for Waikeria prison.

I have much sympathy for the West Coast who yet again have been made the victims of their surroundings. No mining allowed. The call from the Government was not surprising - but it was nevertheless wrong. No, mining is not everyone's...

The Government’s pledge to put fewer people in prison is already starting to bite, as it drops previous targets aimed at solving more crime and keeping New Zealanders safe, National’s Police spokesperson Chris Bishop says.

Health Minister David Clark ignored repeated pleas to tell the truth about Counties Manukau DHB and to clear their names from public servants whose reputation he had unfairly damaged, National’s MP for Botany Jami-Lee Ross says.

For the next six weeks or so Winston Peters will be able to be the man he is with the job he's coveted for so long. When he rises in Parliament's bear pit to answer a question on behalf of the real Prime Minister he's currently...

Health Minister David Clark apologised to the former chairman of Counties Manukau District Health Board for the position he'd been left in over Middlemore Hospital's building problems, correspondence from the ex-chairman claims.The...

ACT leader David Seymour may have people begging him to withdraw from reality television show Dancing with the Stars , but two prominent former Act Party leaders say the publicity can only be good for the brand.With the original...

Act leader David Seymour has stunned the judges with an "unbelievable" waltz on Dancing with the Stars tonight. Seymour, who has consistently been among the lowest-scoring contestants, got his highest score yet with 21.Judge Julz...

Power Play - The Prime Minister's due date marks the start of the handover to Winston Peters, after a week in which coalition bonds were tested, writes Jane Patterson.

If the prison population continues to spiral, the government will need to build a new prison every two or three years, the Justice Minister says.

For the first time in a decade the ACT party is out in the cold. It's languishing in the polls, and its leader told Jane Patterson about a possible name change and dancing up some publicity.

Checkpoint - With the due date just days away, RNZ's Katie Scotcher investigates what it could be like to grow up as the child of the Prime Minister.

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".