I wrote on Patreon why I was predicting that Tory Whanau will withdraw from the Mayoral race. I hear from informed sources that Whanau has indeed withdrawn, and that the Herald has an exclusive story ...

The Government has announced a $53 million boost for teacher registrations and practising certificates fees through to 2028. Education Minister Erica Stanford said it will also cover any increases the ...

Several people were killed after a vehicle ploughed into a crowd at a street festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver today, local police said. “A number of people have been killed and multiple ...

China's embassy in New Zealand has expressed its "strong dissatisfaction" over a visit to Taiwan by a cross-parliamentary group of MPs. A lengthy statement posted by the embassy accused the MPs of ...

TVNZ says it cut a story featuring an anonymous Destiny Church whistleblower from the digital version of a 1News bulletin out of an “abundance of caution”. Some viewers claim the whistleblower’s face ...

The Canadian election is on Monday (Tuesday NZ time) and the Liberal Party has gone from being 20% behind a few months ago and facing a loss of well over 100 seats to leading in most polls and ...

You could almost hear the sighs of relief from Waipū, Paihia, Whangārei and Kerikeri yesterday when Transport Minister Chris Bishop revealed the earmarked route for a four-lane highway. … This road ...

The “standard” sentence for murder in New Zealand is life imprisonment with a minimum non parole period (NPP) of ten years. This can be increased at the sentencing Judge’s discretion. For murder with ...

Climate change is no longer a top threat for the defence force in its latest spending plan. ... It marks a departure from the 2019 Defence Capability Plan, which identified climate change as a key ...

The latest NZ Crime and Victims Survey has found a massive drop in the number of New Zealanders who say they were the victim of a violent (including sexual) crime in the last year. Now recall these ar ...