Tonga's King has committed an act so foolish that it bears comparison with some of the biggest political clangers of recent history.

Senior Government officials are pushing for radical revamp of the tax system, papers show.

Protests over scheme offering financial incentives for men to marry widows.

A former North Otago rugby representative is believed to have been among those killed in the Tongan ferry disaster.

The Government has set a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

Government has announced that New Zealand's new target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions will be a reduction of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent by 2020.