COMMENT: The indications that China is displeased with New Zealand cannot be mistaken. China is a country where nothing of this kind happens by accident, the government's reach into every aspect of Chinese life is virtually unlimited....

China's ambassador to New Zealand, Madam Wu Xi, said New Zealand and China needed to build a more resilient relationship and handle differences properly to avoid "the rocks."And she said the two countries needed to foster new areas...

Yesterday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern served New Zealand a sizzling steak in the form of a digestible and attractive tax.She announced the Government was going ahead with plans to make sure highly digitalised companies – such...

The Government has put some of the world's biggest companies in its taxation crosshairs, meaning the likes of Facebook and Google could soon be hit by a new tax. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday said Cabinet had begun updating...

COMMENT: Jacinda Ardern repeated the line a few times when talking to journos after the Cabinet meeting. Our current tax system is not fair, she said, in the way it treats taxpayers and the way it treats multinationals.Ardern's...

Consultation on trades training reforms shows a lack of respect to our communities, National’s Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Spokesperson Shane Reti says.

Improvements in long-term planning and council management are required to support local government funding models so regions can take best advantage of tourism growth opportunities, says Tourism Industry Aotearoa.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is supporting international efforts to help cool the planet with new regulations coming into force today.

It is disappointing that the combined deficit of New Zealand’s 20 District Health Boards looks set to balloon to about $500 million despite David Clark’s pledge when he took office that he would bring it under control, National’s Health spokesman Michael Woodhouse says.

It’s timely and worthwhile to review aspects of Crown lease land in the South Island High Country but the rights of leaseholders are just as important as other factors in the debate, Federated Farmers 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".