The Government says it's taking advice on a potential intervention at Wellington City Council. 1News explains how it got to this point.
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The country's mega-ministry has been incorrectly calculating its cost benefit analysis for taxpayer-funded events for more than two years.
The Prime Minister disagreed, saying he was out and about talking to New Zealanders.
"We're dealing with what's in front of us," Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said.
NZ Herald
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown Minister has asked officials at the Department of Internal Affairs for advice on potential interventions at Wellington...
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Nicola Willis says the council is a "shambles" and Simeon Brown says he's looking at options for stepping in.
Christopher Luxon said the Government had to make "tough" decisions because it inherited a "mess".
Despite a horror year, the Greens saw an increase in support.
Newsroom
The Government is moving forwards with its controversial review of legislation including Treaty of Waitangi provisions.
ACT Party supporters were the most likely to say the country is better off, according to the poll.
RNZ
Analysis - It's a tall ask, given spendthrift National's cuts and Peters' own plans to intervene on an ACT policy.
The expansion of an Auckland maximum security prison has been confirmed as one of the projects slated for approval under the government's Fast Track Approval bill.
Newsroom
Offices of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General have been implicated in what a Royal Commission calls a 'cover-up' of torture and sexual abuse of children in the custody of the state. Who else was involved?
RNZ
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters' keynote speech at the party conference in Hamilton was interrupted by Palestine protesters, and two people were arrested in the conflict.
The government is being encouraged to engage with iwi to foster Māori economic development.
On 19 November, the hīkoi is planned to arrive on Parliament grounds, having gathered supporters from the very top and through the nine-day journey.
RNZ
The projects include a quarry extension into conservation land and a development whose owner was publicly supported by National MPs during a legal battle with Kāinga Ora.
The Auditor-General says there was "no opportunity for a fair, open, or competitive procurement process".
RNZ
The ACT leader and Ngāti Toa leader Helmut Modlik clashed on the place of Te Tiriti in modern Aotearoa.
NZ Herald
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ’s flying to Laos today for a meeting of world leaders, a trip being described as a “hugely valuable opportunity for New...
RNZ
Any such speculation is "utterly wrong", Shane Reti says.
NZ Herald
The Government’s new fast-track project list has blown the cover on a proposal that would allow the capacity at the high-security Auckland Prison to be...
NZ Herald
By RNZ Destruction in Otago from flooding and heavy rain is “devastating”, the Prime Minister says, but he was unaware of a proposal to government that was...
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A document leaked to RNZ shows service are proposing to axe staff and pull back on projects.
RNZ
The climate change minister has admitted there's no way to meet NZ's commitments under the Paris Agreement without buying help.
After many months of heated discussion, the controversial Bill has finally begun what is likely a doomed legislative journey. 1News explains what's next.
"It was horrific. It was heartbreaking. It was wrong," Christopher Luxon said.
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