The Government’s new goal of cutting public service staff costs, by telling departments to replace staff with AI, is expected to save $2.4 billion over the next four years, Finance Minister Nicola ...

The future of the Tararua District may hang in the balance after central government gave local authorities a three-month deadline to consider amalgamation options. “Will our District cease to exist?” ...

A High Court judge has ruled a Royal Commission report into the Jehovah’s Witnesses was unlawful, finding the inquiry strayed beyond its legal remit and into wider criticism of the faith’s practices ...

Friends have paid tribute to a “devoted family man” and “formidable paddler” who died while kayaking in Auckland on Saturday morning. Simon McLarin died of a medical event while out in the Hobsonville ...

Prefer us on Google Te Puke Highway is closed in Papamoa after a critical two-vehicle crash. Police indicated people were critically injured following the collision, which occurred between Bell Rd and ...

Auckland Council say staff had to have police escort them from an animal shelter during a protest fuelled by “misinformation” ...

I do it every week for Stuff with my Paddy Gower Does Stuff stories. And I’ll be doing it even more when my show Paddy Gower ...

He’s back: 15 years after calling his Maori Party colleagues “dickheads”, Hone Harawira is back in the fold and wants his old parliamentary seat back too. Te Pati Maori president John Tamihere has ...

The Marist Brothers has reported itself to the Privacy Commissioner for the breach, saying “this should not have happened”.

A shark fatally mauled a diver off an Australian tourist island on Saturday, police said. The 38-year-old man had been spearfishing with a friend when he was attacked on a coral reef off Rottnest ...

Bibi, who claimed to be Mercury’s daughter in a recent biography, died of a rare spinal cancer and leaves behind two young sons.

The Hui’s 2026 season continues with an exclusive sitdown interview with Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. The MP tells host Julian Wilcox why she is leaving Te Pāti Māori, and an expert panel analyses what the ...