Port of Auckland is axing a $7.7 million per year it spends to incentivise freight companies to move containers by rail. But while the council-owned company wants to phase in a rail-handling charge ...

The deputy chief coroner says the Christchurch terrorist’s participation in an upcoming inquest will be tightly controlled ...

Paul Goldsmith was repeatedly called out by the Waitangi Tribunal. Photo: Getty Images Analysis: Seldom have the actions of one Cabinet minister been more thoroughly exposed by a statutory tribunal ...

Children's Minister Karen Chhour faced a sceptical crowd as she tried to justify the Government's funding cuts for social services providers. Photo: Sam Sachdeva From climate activists and ...

Mario Draghi’s plan for the EU suffers from the same fundamental flaws that hindered the Lisbon Strategy in 2000, argues Dr Oliver Hartwich. Photo: Getty Images Opinion: It was an ambitious plan to ...

The author's Dad knocking the house into shape at Waiau Pa. No one ends up in Waiau Pa by accident. A small dot on the edge of South Auckland near the coast. A town you’ll never pass through unless ...

ACC’s dispute resolution service is in chaos, Wellington lawyer Warren Forster says, and the minister needs to fix it ...

'Without regulations, our votes mean little because the government we elect wouldn’t have any power or any leverage over an unregulated corporate sector that would be free to use, accumulate and ...

An author’s portrait of a dot near the shores of Manukau harbour Start your day with a curation of our top stories in your ...

Opinion: Funding R&D is an investment; if we want an advanced economy, we better start seeing it that way, writes Hayden Thorne.

Environment officials were shut out of the emissions calculation, prompting a last-minute scramble to inform ministers of the ...

• Credit ratings downgrades for Wellington, Hamilton, Hutt, Porirua, Horowhenua, Bay of Plenty • Nineteen more councils placed on negative credit outlook Announcing this week that the new $68-million ...