NZ's gambling regulator says a surge in global users for prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi prompted it to take ...

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Opinion: There’s still no clear Govt plan to take NZ forward, just uncoordinated actions by the coalition partners, says Peter Dunne ...

Māori relationship can be 'volatile' and 'challenging', Tama Potaka says, but he believes real progress is being made on the ground ...

Not as a character but as an aside, a citation, we encounter a “celebrated New Zealand writer JG Stein” (guess who), whose last sequence on the death of his wife is, Thom considers—the poet himself ...

Select committee recommends new safeguard to protect protests outside Premier House when connected to state visits – but the Opposition believes the law should be canned entirely.

Agriculture groups support the intent of the new legislation, but say it won’t work as currently drafted – Government says ‘we’re listening’ ...

When central banks gain operational independence, the appointment of governors with political connections becomes more, not less, likely ...

Electricity prices rocket when hydro lakes are low, but importing gas is no silver bullet. We can do better by using our own resources, expert says.

Legal and social services experts say sweeping the streets of vagrants won't make them less homeless - and we should be ashamed of the way we're treating society's most vulnerable New Zealanders ...

Rebekah White is a freelance science journalist, a sustainability communications advisor at the University of Auckland, and the former editor of New Zealand Geographic magazine.

Analysis: One of the increased costs for the Tākaka-based regional airline was higher council landing charges – now because ...