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There are five days each year I cherish. Three of them come in May when I attend the Auckland Writers Festival. Two are in August when I go to the annual conference of the Environmental Defence Society (EDS). Read more...

G iven that National Party leader Simon Bridges has made consistency and strong leadership the cornerstones of his attacks upon the coalition government, his own massive backflip on the meth compensation issue has been unfortunate, to say the ... Read more...

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The Court of Appeal has turned down the proposed merger between media companies NZME and Stuff. Read more...

Winston Peters, Acting Prime Minister while Jacinda Ardern is in New York for the UN Leaders' Week, held a short press conference Monday after chairing this week's cabinet meeting. Read more...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has used her first speech in the US to recommit the government to making New Zealand the best place in the world to be a child. Read more...

A warning has gone out to house hunters in Christchurch not to rely on building reports supplied by those selling homes. Read more...

More than 100 students walked out of a Hamilton high school this morning in protest after the principal said truants are more likely to wind up being a rape victim. Read more...

The sulpur smell at a Carterton school where 10 pupils fell ill on Friday was from compost at a neighbouring property, police say. Read more...

New Zealand will not be signing the United States' document calling for global action on the war on drugs, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Read more...