Liberal news satirist Jon Stewart is planning a "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington next month.

Act leader Rodney Hide says he will only step down if he considers it is in the party's best interests - and he doesn't.

Aucklanders have low expectations of their new super city council's performance.

Columnist Kerre Woodham finds herself in two minds about the teachers' strike.

Neighbourhood teams will help prevent crime before it happens, Police Minister Judith Collins says.

Our survey reveals what Aucklanders want to see as the top priority for the new Super City council.

New Zealand finally seems to be on the road to building a much stronger relationship with Uncle Sam.

Prime Minister John Key says ACT leader Rodney Hide has shown good judgment and has his full support following the resignation of disgraced MP David Garrett from the party.

The Act Party has been "thoroughly" discredited and its ministerial positions should be removed, Labour leader Phil Goff says. "One thing the public can't stand is absolute hypocrisy."

Act leader Rodney Hide says David Garrett lost his support because he doubted the MP had been truthful in an affidavit he submitted to court over a passport fraud case.

A Chinese bid to buy 20 NZ farms will be rejected or severely restricted after an Overseas Investment Office review, the Herald understands.

Disgraced Act MP David Garrett has quit his party and conceded his political career is almost certainly over.

Rodney Hide refused to say how he would respond to David Garrett's public admission of identity theft until this afternoon.

The mother of the 2 year-old whose identity was stolen by David Garrett has described the identity theft as 'stealing from the grave'.