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Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited Keep Reading

A Chinese tool capable of cutting the most fortified undersea data cables is stoking fears. Keep Reading

Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka said he was not aware the Government’s Resource Management Act (RMA) replacement legislation would not include a... Keep Reading

Is there any chance of NZ First and Labour working together again next year? Political reporter Glenn McConnell explains the leaders’ latest jabs and what that means for any coalition negotiations Keep Reading

THREE KEY FACTS It’s almost two years to the day the Herald launched its Dire Strait series to investigate the cause and cost of our ferry failures, how the... Keep Reading

Peter's State of the Nation mentioned Labour 30 times and accused the last government of a "litany of lies". Keep Reading