Would-be liquor merchants are flooding NZ with applications for new bottle shops before an expected law tightening, a liquor chain says.

The family of a man shot dead by a high-powered air rifle is welcoming a policy change that will see all those with such weapons requiring a firearms licence.

A terminally ill doctor who reignited the euthanasia debate says he has received offers to help him die.

Unions are warning of heated collective contract talks on the horizon.

Garth George writes that after the Labour years, activists are relishing the chance to take their fight back to the street.

Andrew Little writes that changes to laws that take away workers' rights are unfair and unjust.

New financial advisers rules won't stop the world turning to custard.

John Key says extending the 90-day trial period is about "giving prospective employees a shot", but the Greens say National is breaking one of its pre-election policies by doing so.

Protesters briefly broke through security cordons at the hotel beside the convention centre where the National Party's annual conference was being held.

The Government today announced sweeping changes to labour laws, including changing the test for reasonable dismissal to make it easier for employers to fire workers.

Flora's was always a brothel - only you didn't call them brothels back then. And it was run by one of Auckland's godfathers of the sex industry.