Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has opened up about her multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis, saying she feels she has a "responsibility" to start an honest conversation about the autoimmune disease. In a tweet, Ghahraman said today was...

The Government will launch a "place-based assessment" of Rotorua's housing problem, in a renewed bid to address its status as a "homeless hotspot".It comes as Housing Minister Megan Woods visited the city on Wednesday, making the...

Auckland Transport expects the "backbone" of its public transport operation, its rail services, to double in popularity within eight years as the Government pours more funding into rail.Figures, provided to MPs at a Transport select...

New Zealand will support Fiji to relocate communities displaced by climate change through a $2 million contribution to the Climate Relocation and Displaced Peoples Trust Fund, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today in Suva.

The Otago Regional Council (ORC) voted today to request that Minister for the Environment Hon.

"Let me be clear, Maori have a guardianship, ownership and protection role when it comes to the nations freshwater ways and let me be even clearer - if what has been happening to our freshwater eco-systems and ecology over the last hundred years was working then we would not be a position where w

The huge majority of New Zealanders think fishing industry donations to Members of Parliament at the last election have the potential to "strongly influence" decisions the MPs make, according to a poll conducted by Horizon Research.

The EMA believes the $19.9m from the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) which will create 150 jobs in Kawerau is just the spark needed to ignite growth in the Eastern Bay of Plenty town.

The Government rejected Justice Ministry advice to allow all prisoners to vote, even though it would best uphold human rights and fulfill Treaty of Waitangi obligations.Instead Justice Minister Andrew Little opted to withhold voting...

Hannah Tamaki says she will "always be friends" with the campaign manager she dumped after he posted a tirade of abuse online.Jevan Goulter has been close friends with Tamaki and her husband Brian for the past nine years but this...

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".