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The voice of afternoon rest and recreation in New Zealand, Jesse Mulligan, will announce the winners of a lucrative and intensely contested writers residency, available both in honking Auckland and ...

New Zealand's space race is on the verge of stepping up another notch, but with big opportunities come growing risks ...

Analysis: National's new fiscal plan looks a lot like Labour's, with similar spending allowances, no tax cuts and no new public service cuts either ...

Comment: How NZ’s historic mobilisation against the nuclear threat in the 1980s contrasts with modern complacency toward the climate crisis ...

A decision taken in a carpark that a vital medical service be denied; Book of the Week: Jacinda's spin doctor, still spinning; Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 12 October ...

Education Minister Erica Stanford labels NCEA inherently broken at a Wellington forum, promoting year 11 compulsory schooling and foundational literacy awards ...

Comment: Kiwibank's US copyright takedowns of viral mascot memes expose NZ’s lack of legal protections for parody, satire and fair use ...

Locals managed to dissuade their own council from dumping its sewage byproduct on picturesque Central Otago farmland – but they couldn't stop fast-growing Queenstown Lakes from doing it. Jill Herron ...

Chris Hipkins ventures into a centre-right stronghold that's had two historic flirtations with Labour, and gently talks up a ...

A portrait by Jane Ussher of Airini Beautrais, taken the day after she won the $60,000 Acorn fiction prize at the 2021 Ockhams for her book Bug Week. Three of the best writers in New Zealand have ...

NZ First candidate Craig Stobo campaigning among the crowds at Howick's Spring Hob classic cars festival. Photo: Jonathan Milne Craig Stobo grew up in Oamaru, the son of a pharmacist and nurse of ...