COMMENT: Attempt to make housing market work has been abject failure.

Day two of the appeal to allow NZME and Fairfax to merge has started.

Earliest opening to be 7am under draft bottle-shop rules.

Victims should be given the chance to manage their grief, Andrew Little says.

US Government analysis found Kiwi Welfare State to be a world first

What do political parties propose to do about combating climate change?

Women who contribute just as much as male colleagues still lag behind in pay, study finds.

New illegality has emerged in the GCSB's actions against the Megaupload accused.

Where do political parties stand on science funding and natural hazards?

Big tobacco companies are ready to move in on the NZ vaping market if it is legalised.

Proposal that could lead to microchipping, registration for cats became a official policy.

As Parliament comes to its final weeks, National is hoping to make few final law changes.

Lotto winner Lou Te Keeti talks to Gareth Morgan. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: The bizarre events at the Ministry of Transport could end up shaking up politics.

Ideas raised to control cats aren't enough to do the job, ecologist Mark Bellingham says.

EDITORIAL: NZ should wait and see how cannabis legalisation turns out in Canada and US.

COMMENT: Wide marijuana law reform is urgently needed for many reasons.

Conservationists say Govt will face a furious backlash if it changes conservation laws.

COMMENT: NZ needs a law against slavery in this country and the supply chains we use.

EDITORIAL: Citizenship is something to be treasured, not bestowed in secret.

MP Todd Barclay has only kept his job to maintain National's majority, Labour says.

People convicted under anti-gay laws are a step closer to having their records wiped.

WDC supports bill but those on window-washing frontline say fines won't be a deterrent.

A bill allowing 300 new homes on prime coastal land in Auckland is set to pass into law.

Trade minister Tim Groser personally approved spying on diplomats after the job he wanted.

Chilling statistics show there were 194 family violence deaths in NZ over a 7-year period.

A vote on legalising euthanasia could be closer than predicted.

COMMENT: The long, fraught process to deciding on a right to die has only just begun.

Neither Labour nor National is addressing landlord's 'total power' in NZ, the Sallies say.

Care and support workers will be paid more than their managers, say employers.