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Papers reveal industry lobbying against tax hikes, restrictions on sales, and a Fetal Alcohol plan. Keep Reading

Secondary teachers are striking the 1% pay increase offered by the Government. Keep Reading

For Europe’s leaders, the White House meeting was about optics as much as substance: a chance to undo any ground Russia's Vladimir Putin may have gained with Trump in Alaska. Keep Reading

The Marsden Fund is among three contestable funds to lose millions to help set up the new Institute for Advanced Technology. Keep Reading

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is speaking to media from Wellington after the weekly meeting of Cabinet ministers. Keep Reading

Patients are having to stand while waiting, in what emergency department nurses says is the busiest winter they've seen. Keep Reading