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.

The Minister of Maori Affairs is warning that people using a 'Maori Traveller's Permit' instead of a driver's licence will be prosecuted.

Prime Minster John Key has indicated personal tax cuts, as well as wider tax reform, will be on the Government's agenda this year.