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Put down the drink and spare a bit of money this July. New Zealanders are being asked to give up alcohol for the month to raise funds for those going through cancer...
New Zealand's new Free Trade Agreement with the European Union isn't perfect, but it may be the best we're ever going to get. The 27-country bloc has agreed to remove...
A new dawn for New Zealand's heath sector. The country's 20 DHBs have been officially disestablished to make way for the Health NZ juggernaut and the Maori Health...
“Politicians have sucked the life out of young New Zealanders” this according to a very good opinion piece in the Herald yesterday by University Macro Economics...
Nominations are now open to run for your local school's board of trustees. With elections in September, New Zealand School Trustees Association wants to make sure...
Demand for passports has risen significantly, with a 400 percent increase since January. This now has the Department of Internal Affairs scrambling, with nearly...
Questions are being raised around the sentence given to a young man whose driving resulted in the deaths of five Timaru teenagers. Tyreese Fleming has been jailed...
Call me naïve, and look when to comes to this stuff I probably am. It’s a mixture of not being that clued into forensically what goes on technologically with my...
So the Supreme Court has ruled that traditional values group 'Family First' will no longer qualify for charitable status. The ruling is that the group's work isn't...
A former US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner says human trafficking's become financially lucrative to people smugglers. It follows the deaths of 50 migrants...
Claims the emergency housing situation in Rotorua is "out of control". Newstalk ZB can reveal the Government has so far spent one billion dollars on emergency housing...
Like a lot of parents I imagine at the moment, I got the call up to the school sick bay yesterday to collect my daughter. Not another respiratory virus thank goodness,...
Good insulation is something we know keeps people out of hospitals, therefore reduces pressure on our health system. But vulnerable homeowners could be eligible...
No time is a good time to give a child a phone. A new Canstar survey shows only 10 percent believe a child is safer with a mobile phone than without one. Meanwhile,...
A construction expert says we're in for turbulent times, with the slowdown in the market for new housing builds igniting fears property prices could begin to spiral. The...
No one in the history of spin has spun more than this current Government, which is why I find it so ironic that Grant Roberston’s accused Chris Luxon of ‘political...
Prince Charles' office has denied there was any wrongdoing in the heir to the British throne accepting bags full of cash as charity donations from a Qatari politician. The...
It's being suggested Simon O'Connor has created an unfortunate distraction for the National party and his leader. Chris Luxon says a social media post by O'Connor...
More than $1 billion is spent on takeaways and fast food each year in Auckland. High deprivation areas have a higher concentration of the outlets, and fewer places...
By Andrew Alderson at Headingley The synonym jar is almost empty to describe the narrow margins in the cricket test series between England and New Zealand. The same...
It’s so good to be back. I was a bit nervous about coming back because when you’ve been sick for three weeks unable to stay awake for long periods and feeling so...
President Joe Biden will call on Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months — an election-year move meant to ease financial pressures...
Smaller grocery players are casting doubts on the latest moves by the supermarket giants. Foodstuffs has followed its rival Woolworths, in announcing a wholesale...
There are concerns owners of nasty dogs aren't facing the consequences of attacks by their animals. A report in Gisborne found no one has been prosecuted, despite...
Space is unimaginably, infinitely, large but our little corner of it is getting crowded. More satellites are going up every day, and one expert is warning it's becoming...