A Government committed to data-based decisions has cut nearly 400 science roles, while the PM's own expert position has sat ...

A leading figure in China's propaganda system shunned the spotlight and government meetings during an NZ visit.

Opinion: The controversial Treaty Principles Bill proposed by Act Party leader David Seymour has been criticised by many, but little light has been cast so far on the real threat it poses to New ...

Over half the total money that must be spent on local referendums on Māori seats will be shouldered by councils that didn’t record a single vote against the ward ...

Auckland City Library takes visitors on a trip back in time with a display that includes the first efforts to write down the Māori language ...

RNZ soars in online audience, why US owners should give TV3 to Stuff, and NZ Herald meets Chinese propaganda minister ...

Analysis: New climate projections from Niwa offer for the first time an extremely local look at how New Zealand’s temperature and weather patterns may change as the world continues to warm. The new ...

It’s a pity New Zealand no longer has the once thriving gold mining industry it previously boasted towards the later part of the 19th century when the country was still in its infancy. Were it still ...

The central problem I have with Paddy Gower’s autobiography This is the F#$%ing News is that he didn’t f#$%ing write it. There’s a laziness and a complacency to this as-told-to exercise, an indulgence ...

Wellington shopper Elvira George would rather drive 40 minutes to Kmart in Porirua than visit her local Warehouse store five minutes down the road. The Miramar hairdresser used to pop in to the ...

Tokomaru Bay: 'The images of forestry slash piled up on bridges and beaches were dramatic but also without much explanation or context...' Photo: Aaron Smale It took me years to finally go back home.

'Question Time – a name derived from the question it raises of “what is the point of all this?”' Photo: Parliamentary Service Opinion: I found myself watching some pieces of parliamentary theatre ...