New Zealand law requires that a child being home schooled receives an education at least as good as they would receive in a registered school. However, once approval is granted, there is no checking ...

A sustainable health system starts with a sustainable general practice workforce and today’s Budget announcement does not go far enough to deliver it. Despite commitment to improve access and ...

As promised, the Finance Minister has delivered a bread-and-butter Budget 2026, with few big surprises and no sign of a lolly ...

Police in Apia have launched an investigation into a bizarre international case involving two Samoan men who confessed on Vietnamese television to the murder of a Sydney gang leader in Ho Chi Minh ...

The opposition says this year's Budget leaves New Zealanders to fend for themselves, with more spending for prisons and more ...

The government has been accused of balancing its books on the backs of already-indebted students, as hundreds marched through ...

Would you swap your investment adviser for ChatGPT? Your mortgage adviser for Claude? A growing number of people around the world are turning to AI to help them with questions relating to anything ...

Gisborne District Council has welcomed the Government’s confirmation of $75 million for resilience upgrades on State Highway ...

In the absence of an eye-catching, big-spending policy in Nicola Willis's third Budget, the headline was a surprise return to ...

The weekend is set to bring showers across some of the country, while the month stacks up to possibly be the driest May ever ...

This is in keeping with generally utopian visions of generative AI (GenAI) tools unleashing creativity, removing mundane, repetitive work, and “freeing up humans” for more fulfilling tasks. However, ...

Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist. Budget 2026 will see more foreign aid to the Pacific region, while defence and customs spending rises with an eye towards crime and security. B ...