NZ taxpayers have spent more than half a billion dollars over the past decade subsidising Hollywood.

Taxpayers have paid $500m-plus to subsidise big-budget movie makers. Is it money well spent, asks Karyn Scherer.

NZTA cleared its registry of deceased licence holders, only to have 23 inform it they were still alive.

John Key has slammed bureaucratic pin-pricking over the proposed NZ financial services hub as "absolute rubbish" and stepped in to put the project on the fast-track.

Hillary Clinton is about to meet 61 statesmen, many of whom will be smarting from US remarks revealed by WikiLeaks.

The Labour Party's finance spokesman, David Cunliffe, raised some eyebrows last Thursday

Helen Clark is likely to be among top UN officials targeted by the US in an intelligence-gathering exercise.

Mayor calls for probe after paper reports board appointments.

Taxpayers could be paying as much as $178 million to bail out a failed finance company owned by one of NZ's wealthiest families.

The Royal Commission into the Pike River mine tragedy will be headed by High Court Judge Graham Panckhurst.

Akilisi Pohiva talks to Audrey Young about his priorities for Tonga.

A royal commission of inquiry into the Pike River tragedy will look at causes of the blast and the initial response.

We've told the Government, 'Guys, you need a bigger toolbox and you need to think about economic instruments'," says Alastair Bisley, chairman of the Land and Water Forum, talking about what is required to resolve the issue of water quality