Winston Peters has borrowed heavily from other parties with policy announcements today.

Winston Peters said NZ First’s support is firming up and his party is taking votes from others across the board.

Winston Peters was the one cutting the birthday cake. But someone else was plunging the knife.

Conservative Party Leader Colin Craig has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Winston Peters over Foreign Minister Murray McCully's East Coast Bays seat.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he would not form a Government with National unless it agreed to introduce binding referenda.

NZ First Leader Winston Peters is promising to announce “game changing” policies to tackle social inequality.

NZ First Leader Winston Peters is taking the fight to Colin Craig by refusing to rule out standing against the Conservative Party Leader in East Coast Bays.

Some of the Conservative Party's key policies are so similar to New Zealand First that leader Colin Craig has been accused of plagiarism.

A hardline law and order policy by NZ First would offer greater protection to homeowners, farmers and shop keepers who shoot to kill intruders during home invasions or burglaries.

The suspected illegal sale of a Northland island is further evidence of the Government's free-for-all attitude to selling land to foreign interests, Winston Peters says.

Winston Peters accused Brendan Horan of "disgraceful" conduct after it was revealed NZ First will not face sanctions over allegations of misuse of taxpayer funding.

Most Labour voters prefer the Green Party to NZ First if Labour only needs one of them after the election.

A spat between MPs in a TVNZ green room propelled weatherman Brendan Horan into the voting booth for the first time at the age of 44.

So predictable has Winston Peters become in timing his beating of the anti-immigration drum near an election that you can almost set your watch by it, writes John Armstrong.

New Herald poll shows Internet-Mana would get two MPs, as their success eats into the Greens vote while National is still well ahead of Labour.

Brendan Horan doesn't have any secrets - just ask his wife, Miranda.

Taxpayer funding for National and Labour's election campaign broadcast advertising has been cut for this year's election but the Greens and NZ First will enjoy a substantial boost.

The chairman of a Maori Trust at the centre of claims from Winston Peters of misspending has stepped down as an independent audit of its finances is launched.

David Cunliffe has tried just about everything to put a dent in the Government's poll ratings without success, writes Brian Rudman. He's now dipping into Winston Peters' murky bag of trick

Brendan Horan has made fresh allegations that his former boss, Winston Peters, is breaking parliamentary rules by having taxpayer-funded staff working on party business.

New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters is calling for an inquiry into finances at a $30 million-a-year South Auckland Maori disability support services trust.

Prime Minister John Key is predicting a "tight and tough" election with the Government up against a "left wing block" of parties.

Hostilities between Brendan Horan and his former NZ First colleagues have fired up again, with Mr Horan making allegations of bullying behaviour.

Parliament’s Speaker is investigating whether NZ First misused taxpayer funding by paying for software used to seek votes and raise cash for the party.

While he denied he was running away from a fight, NZ First leader Winston Peters left his MPs to defend the party against claims by rogue former MP Brendan Horan.

Prime Minister John Key has declared previous ownership of a racehorse, days after Winston Peters was accused of hiding his interest in a horse.

Justice Minister Judith Collins is back in Parliament today, and is set to face more questions from the Opposition.

NZ First leader Winston Peters is rejecting allegations from a former colleague that he misused party money and failed to declare interests in a successful racehorse.

Parliament’s Speaker says he has had to accept that NZ First MP Denis O’Rourke is not in a relationship with his taxpayer funded employee and housemate.