National and Act have agreed to pass a three-strikes law under which some killers will be locked away in prison without any chance of release.

John Key has indicated the Govt is open to reform which trades personal income tax cuts for some form of tax on investment property.

Public access to a widely-used class of painkillers containing codeine is likely to be restricted within months over addiction fears.

Franklin residents will be split between the new Auckland Supercity, Waikato and Hauraki district councils.

A Canadian government minister has resigned from his position because he couldn't face having to make a trip to New Zealand.

Famous stretch of coastline in the Far North could be renamed under a tentative Treaty of Waitangi deal.

A NZ toddler and his Indian-born mother were turned back from India and interrogated on their return to Auckland Airport because their names were on a terrorism blacklist.