Act Party leader and Associate Education Minister, David Seymour, has announced a new scheme to tackle absenteeism in schools. The Star, or stepped system, could possibly include prosecution and ...

600 jobs at Timaru’s Alliance Smithfield meatworks plant are set to go under a new proposal put forward on Friday. A consultation period will run for just over two weeks before a decision is ...

More and more of us are having to ditch our extra curricular activities, like art, music or cooking classes as the cost of living bites. We talk to a community education provider who says demand ...

The latest Stats NZ employment indicator figures show that younger workers have borne the brunt of the job losses, with the number of 15-29 year-olds in filled jobs down by about 29,000 compared ...

SPONSORED: As part of Paddy Gower's series with Animates to ban the sale of fireworks with the Pawprint Petition, he talks with an SPCA expert on how fireworks affect animal behaviour.

The Treaty Principles Bill, championed by ACT Party leader David Seymour, is getting its first reading in Parliament today. The bill has generated plenty of heated discussion, debate and protest ...

The reporting below will traverse evidence around an alleged murder and may upset some readers. All the evidence is being presented in the High Court. The accused has since returned to court and ...

Organisers promised that the Paris Olympic Games would be the greenest in modern history, saying they would halve the carbon footprints of the London and Rio editions.

After the largest, longest, and most complex public inquiry ever held in New Zealand, a Royal Commission of Inquiry report estimated that from 1950 to 2019, 200,000 vulnerable people faced abuse ...

All Black midfielder Anton Lienert-Brown talks to Paddy about the crippling anxiety he lives with. We meet the Kiwi woman who should be dead from Pancreatic cancer but has survived 97 rounds of ...