Manukau mayor Len Brown today officially confirmed he will run for the mayoralty of the new Auckland super city.

The Prime Minister formally apologises to Te Arawa iwi and hapu for breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Brownlee says 'degree of panic' over review not warranted.

Prison containers are for shifting goods, not housing people, says a leading penal reform advocate after today's announcement the units will be trialled at Rimutaka Prison from next March.

Projects which boost economic growth, productivity and employment targeted.

The biggest problem the tax system faces is that in a globalised era we are taxing all the wrong things.

Chinese government has admitted that two thirds of all organs used in transplants in the country are taken from executed prisoners.

The Scottish Justice Secretary faced down a barrage of angry criticism from members of the Scottish Parliament yesterday amid mounting dismay over his decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.