The prime minister says businesses are 'crying out for young people' as advocates decry the changes as a punishment. Keep Reading

Family of Rana Hamida, Youssef Sammour, and Kiwi teenager Samuel Leason will speak with the Greens co-leaders at Ellen Melville Center in Auckland. Video / NZ Herald Keep Reading

Foreign Minister Winston Peters says he is continuing to work with Samoa on decisions around the ship and its future. Keep Reading

"We love these young people," the prime minister says, but a youth advocate says they've never met a young person who doesn't want to find work. Keep Reading

Te Pāti Māori MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke has been recognised by Time magazine as one of “the world’s most influential rising stars”. Maipi-Clarke was aged... Keep Reading

New Zealand and Australia trade ministers vowed to deepen economic ties amid changes in the global market. Keep Reading

It's announced a $42.8 million funding boost to go towards a 'Biodiscovery Platform'. Keep Reading

RNZ understands an announcement is expected imminently. Keep Reading

The plan will lift New Zealand's defence spending to more than 2 percent in the next eight years with the Defence Minister seeking to have New Zealand develop weapons for export. Keep Reading

The Associate Health Minister has revealed he is pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in additional drug funding in next year's Budget. Keep Reading

The PM has no qualms about how the Hipkins letter saga has played out and denies it was politically clumsy. Keep Reading

Members were sent an email acknowledging the allegations that had been made about "our movement with respect to its culture, leadership and constitutional compliance". Keep Reading

Cabinet papers are usually prepared by ministries with input from impartial public servants. The process over Palestine raises wider questions about transparency. Keep Reading

Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes Te Pāti Māori appears to be a “long way away” from being ready for a role in Government as claims about the party’s... Keep Reading

The cost of power is costing jobs and driving inflation. This is how the powerbrokers want to lower prices. Keep Reading

Analysis: If Willis' big fix for the energy market is to help gentailers finance new thermal baseload or firming plants, she's answering a question that nobody's asking, writes Jonathan Milne. Keep Reading

Penny Simmonds waded into a dispute involving farmers in the Manawatū – including the family farm of MP Suze Redmayne. Keep Reading

Analysis - The recent energy announcement looks unlikely to give National a lift in the deadlocked polls. Keep Reading

The Government will today deliver what it is framing as a “significant but surgical” response to New Zealand’s energy woes, following a lengthy review of the... Keep Reading

Hipkins says he doesn't believe a letter from Luxon asking him to commit to supporting offshore exploration is a genuine attempt at building bipartisan consensus. Keep Reading

For decades, the pension age has been the elephant in the room and most politicians have just tiptoed around. Those who have dared touch it, have been stomped on by the electorate. Keep Reading

Minister of Justice Paul Goldsmith said he was worried New Zealand was developing a "bespoke" legal system that incorporated concepts of tikanga Māori. Keep Reading

Labour leader Chris Hipkins says his party would “very quickly” recognise Palestine as a state if Labour leads the Government after next year’s election.... Keep Reading

Approximately 55% of quake-prone buildings would be removed from the existing system — about 2900 buildings. Keep Reading

Officials repeatedly warned the Government its planned retrospective block on Māori customary rights cases could cost $20m and sour relations further Keep Reading