Barack Obama has a vision of a fundamental US energy makeover, moving from fossil fuels such as coal and oil to renewable sources including solar and wind.

Traps of modern technology see ACT leader accidentally sending text messages to a Close Up producer.

"Perk-buster" Rodney Hide whisked his girlfriend away on another tax-payer funded trip - a mid-winter tropical break in Hawaii.

The path to a free enterprise nirvana is being blocked by an ignorant, nervous electorate.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, author Oliver Fritz reflects on growing up behind the Iron Curtain.

Rodney Hide's Epsom constituents voice their views on his taxpayer funded trip overseas and comments about John Key.

Transpower is contemplating a domestic bond issue of around $200m early next year as it gears up for $5 billion of capital expenditure on national grid upgrades over the next decade.

Rodney Hide took his girlfriend to an LA theme park during their taxpayer-funded trip that was also timed to coincide with her brother's UK wedding.