Finance Minister Bill English says Australia's company tax cuts will benefit New Zealand.

The Hutt Valley District Health Board is getting a cash injection of $8.6 million.

Bidders for the government's $1.5b ultra-fast broadband fund will now be invited to supply plans for "lit" fibre.

NZ recently rebuffed a bid by Australia to form an Anzac training unit in Uruzgan province in Afghanistan, John Key has revealed.

A former smoker brought his diseased heart to Parliament for MPs to look at today, telling a select committee of his five heart attacks caused by smoking-related disease.