Brian Fallow: This morning's interest rate decision for the Reserve Bank is almost a photocopy of the last one on December 10.

Creating an 800m public promenade along Auckland's Quay St has been suggested as an alternative to "party central" plans for Queens Wharf.

The Transport Agency has this week announced yet another route change for its $1.15 billion Waterview motorway project.

Prime Minister John Key says there is "light at the end of the tunnel", after half-yearly accounts painted a better picture than the Budget.

Treasury says NZ has come through the financial crisis in better shape than most of its traditional trading partners.

Free trips for pensioners on Waiheke Island ferries are under review because they are costing the SuperGold Card scheme too much.

TVNZ's charter is to be repealed in a move commentators say will end its public broadcaster role and turn it into a Govt "cash cow".

Rules requiring ministers to keep their self-drive cars in their electorates were not to benefit Bill English, the Prime Minister said today.

John Key ushered through a special rule change so Bill English could keep his taxpayer-funded self-drive car in Wellington rather than Dipton.