EDITORIAL: Australian Senator Stephen Parry thinks New Zealand ought to restore the "upper house" of our Parliament.

In "clean, green New Zealand" just 72 per cent of rivers, streams and lakes are considered safe for swimming and it will remain that way for a while.

EDITORIAL: Labour needs to beat National in September. Can it do so by campaigning with the Greens?

Good luck to a school that aims to instil manners in a generation living on its phones.

HIV-positive figure's condom-free message clashes with international medical advice.

EDITORIAL: Geological testing confirms New Zealand is a dry ridge of a lump of continental crust.

EDITORIAL: Education should open doors for everyone to fulfil their potential.

COMMENT: In the fight for survival, the Maori Party needs to say it will go with Labour if it has the choice in 2017, writes Claire Trevett.

This Government has never had much time for the NZ Superannuation Fund set up by the previous Government.

Auckland's Mt Albert electorate is having one of the strangest election contests New Zealand has seen.

Christchurch must be wondering what it has done to deserve the ravages of nature.

If ever there was a compassionate ground to grant visitors a permanent visa to NZ it is surely those who lost children in Christchurch earthquake.

COMMENT: Government largely got what it wanted: a blueprint for more intensive and extensive housing in the region of most rapid population growth.

COMMENT: Figures released last month by Niwa show that 2016 was the hottest year on record for New Zealand, with record or near-record breaking temperatures for many locations, writes Adelia Hallett.

COMMENT: They are the ninjas of losing, the candidates who must lose to win. writes Claire Trevett.

Michael Flynn's resignation almost certainly will not be the last scene in the spectacular opening act of President Donald Trump's administration.

The annual trans-Tasman Prime Ministers' meeting, hosted by NZ in Queenstown this weekend, will be different from the last one.

Trump has not responded to North Korea's first provocation in the way many probably feared.

Controversial work will promote curiosity and debate in the best tradition of public art.

EDITORIAL: Lisa Carrington has been recognised as one of our truly great sporting figures with the Halberg Award for 2016.

Graeme Wheeler is only the third in the role in nearly three decades and the first not to seek reappointment for a second five-year term.

This week we released our most ambitious venture to date into this genre, a 30-minute documentary on a struggling Auckland secondary school.

The saga so far encourages hope that the constitutional checks on power in the US will be capable of restraining a rogue President.

Ngati Whatua of Orakei did Auckland proud yesterday. Their invitation to the Prime Minister was well-timed.

New Zealand marks its 177th birthday with a thriving economy and has no need of despondency for the future of world trade. It just has more work to do.

Bill English says he "looks forward" to his first phone call from Trump. He is probably being unduly diplomatic after Malcolm Turnbull got Trump treatment.

The naming of election day always intensifies the focus on politics.

COMMENT: It is hard to believe that New Zealanders chose not to pick up as much as $300 million on offer from the Government.

The Commission for Financial Capability wants changes to New Zealand's retirement policies and is urging an overhaul of the 'holiday' arrangement.

COMMENT: This year is an election year, which will determine whether there is real momentum in focusing on the crucial myriad of issues for Maori, writes Jon Stokes.