Matariki holiday will cost $200m a year, but two-thirds of Kiwis support it.

A break down, fire and heavy congestion as the country heads home after Labour weekend

Bus drivers have voted to strike indefinitely.

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Driving back from the bach today? You could be in for a wild ride.

A front is bringing wet weather to several parts of the country tomorrow.

Labour promising to start commuter rail service between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga.

Labour Party has revealed its new election slogan.

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Holidaymakers heading home after the long weekend should avoid some of the key traffic hotspots.

It has been a Labour Weekend with a difference for one mother - who unexpectedly gave birth on a Taranaki roadside.

Congestion north of Auckland and around Wellington has eased, NZ Transport Agency says.

It's been four months since we've been able to soak up a long weekend - and there's plenty to keep us entertained as we luxuriate in this one.

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Andrew Little has been called a "doofus" by the Health Minister in an often ill-tempered debate on financial management at the Ministry of Health.

Tomorrow is Labour Day. Once again we will endure the annual claptrap that unions are great and won for us the eight-hour day. Without unions we would be working 24/7. It's nonsense.

The spate of race baiting, ethnic slurs and off-colour jokes that have marred this year's election campaign continued yesterday.

The conditions have been atrocious. Mr Smith and some of his team, him grey with fatigue and his hands still not fully functioning, ponder at how she could have lasted so long.

It's Labour Day tomorrow. It's ironic that many low-paid workers are made to work Monday as any other day, says Matt McCarten.

A customer service worker was sacked after asking her boss to pay her for working on Labour Day.

Every employee in the land should be concerned at the hammering the actors have got for daring to ask for meaningful negotiations.

A motorist has slammed the long weekend road safety drive as a money-making scheme after being fined by an officer he says popped out from behind a power pole with a speed gun.

The irony is, many working people end up working on Labour Day.

Police say they are "devastated" by the Labour Weekend road toll, which closed at eight - the same number as last year.

More cafes, bars and restaurants are forgoing surcharges on public holidays.

People have flocked to the beaches to enjoy the sunshine of the long holiday weekend, with conditions set to stay this way for the rest of the week.