Labour looks at how it represents gays
The Labour Party conference in Christchurch this weekend looks set to approve a remit that will require its list to "fairly represent" gays and lesbians among candidates.
The Labour Party conference in Christchurch this weekend looks set to approve a remit that will require its list to "fairly represent" gays and lesbians among candidates.
Auckland has been rated one of the world's top 10 cities to visit by travel bible Lonely Planet.
Children's Commissioner Dr Russell Wills has decided to publish his own annual stocktake of child poverty after the Govt spurned his call to publish official measures and targets.
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.
The two mountaineers who died on Mt Taranaki had little chance of surviving for two nights and a day in their shallow hole in the hard snow and freezing wind, says a leading local guide.
Taking time out to explore Rotorua, Nadia Lim discovers the joys of trout fishing.
Liz Light admires the heritage architecture of central Christchurch and discovers there’s still much history to enjoy on a weekend break.
The New Zealand dollar was the worst performing currency overnight, as investors switched to so-called 'safe haven' assets.
She's already won six Pacific Music Awards this year (including Best Album, Song, Video and Female Artist), and been a finalist for the Silver Scroll Award with her song Wake Up, but now Aaradhna's list of accolades for her comeback album.
New information has been revealed about Auckland's February hip-hop festival featuring Eminem, including ticket prices and suggestions that it could become an annual event.
Hip-hop pioneer DJ Shadow has been added to the line-up for next year's Splore festival, being held over the weekend of February 14-16 just outside Auckland.
Waiheke is New Zealand's most densely populated island with 83.58 people a square kilometre, and is the third most heavily populated after the North and South Islands.
The head of Auckland University's medical school has received international recognition for his work in patient safety.
The New Zealand dollar has jumped to its highest in more than five months.
John Banks will file an urgent application this week in a bid to overturn the decision to send him to trial over his donations disclosure from the 2010 Mayoral elections.
On a transtasman voyage, Winston Aldworth gets a taste for the high life aboard the regal Queen Mary 2.
New Zealand had its highest net gain of migrants in more than 10 years last month, as even fewer Kiwis left for Australia.
Former Labour MP Chris Carter says he was lucky to escape possible death after a suicide car bomb exploded metres away from his Afghanistan home.
A woman has been arrested after two French tourists were pistol-whipped in an attack in Napier last night.