Labour MP Maryan Street is under pressure to drop a member's bill which would legalise euthanasia.

Changes to regulations about financial statements will be welcome news for shareholders but somewhat double-edged for registered charities.

Sickness will be at best only a temporary excuse to avoid work under the new welfare regime that came into force this week.

Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is calling for a delay in the passage of the GCSB legislation.

Editorial: The SkyCity convention centre project is a gamble for all involved. But the die is cast, so let's back the country to get it right.

A total ban on animal testing in legislation to regulate legal highs has been voted down by MPs despite an emotional speech by Act leader John Banks.

In Britain five politicians have been caught selling their services to fake lobbyists, writes Sue Kedgley. Could a cash-for-access scandal ever happen here?

Far from being alarmed, the Key Government seems set to make the work of the spies, both their own and the overseas variety, even easier, writes Brian Rudman.

NZ has just passed a law that mirrors what is probably the most disastrous Australian policy failure of the past 20 years, writes Tracey Barnett. Mandatory detention of asylum seekers arriving by boat.

The New Zealand government and SkyCity Entertainment Group are giving themselves another fortnight to cut a deal on the terms for the casino and hotel operator to build a $402 million convention centre in Auckland in exchange for regulatory concessions.

Party pills will be removed from many dairies and grocery stores earlier than expected after a Lotteries Commission crackdown.

Privacy scholars refer to the dangers of aggregation of data and the potential this affords for profiling of individuals and for making of assumptions, writes Gehan Gunasekara.

Dominos UK is using tech to take pizza boldly where no pizza has gone before by developing a remote controlled drone aircraft that delivers, writes Pat Pilcher.

It won't all work out, not without us; now, more than ever, we must tread quietly, writes Daniel Kellly. It is the responsibility of every individual to do so.

Central government politicians have called a roundtable meeting in Wellington tomorrow to look for ways to control street prostitution in South Auckland.

The Government will appeal against a ruling that the new legal aid system is unlawful.

The courts will continue to operate with the current legal aid system for the timebeing despite the Court of Appeal ruling it unlawful.

New South Wales police have created and fired two 3D-printed firearms, the state police commissioner Andrew Scipione revealed in a press conference today.

Editorial: Police invaded the homes of people who were not suspects and gave them reason to think they were being detained while their houses were searched.