New Education Minister Nikki Kaye starts amidst large education reforms.

NZ also looking at beefing up security on flights from Muslim-majority countries

Energy efficiency label still useful to Kiwi shoppers, Green Party says.

The current immigration debate is "farcical", the Act Party says.

National needs to stick to its promise of less and better regulation, lobby group says.

The Kaikoura quake spurred officials to consider Wellington's resilience.

Adrienne Pierce will take on Palmerston North MP Iain Lees-Galloway.

Kary Chung faces huge task to keep her visa, as Immigration Minister defends "tinkering".

COMMENT: Tinkering with the superannuation age has done National no harm.

Feminists, conservatives unite as an unlikely coalition.

COMMENT: Five days of theatre and politics at Andrew Little's trial for defamation.

COMMENT: An apology sooner rather than later would have saved a lot of heartache.

Jury has left to consider whether he has defamed hoteliers Earl and Lani Hagaman.

National's reform of the Resource Management Act is finally complete.

Bill English is still getting a grip on the public side of being PM, an expert says.

Andrew Little said attempts to settle were "most bizarre negotiations" he had ever had.

Nervous time for Hastings and Hawke's Bay producers as RMA changes debated last night.

'News is news now. Nowadays it stays on Google forever,' says Lani Hagaman

He has been accepted into a two-year Master in Public Policy course starting in August.

Bill English's charity sketch is based on a best-seller - by John Key.

There was plenty on offer to bolster the trade between our two countries.

Two years since Winston Peters won the north, can his reign continue?

Little said the object of his criticism was the National Government's actions.

Major reforms to the Resource Management Act are finally ready to progress.

OPINION: Let's improve the quality of our debate on the challenge of climate policy.

Labour's Jacinda Ardern has leapfrogged over her leader Andrew Little as preferred PM.

Investigation was into whether Todd Barclay breached a section of the Crimes Act.

COMMENT: The Abortion Supervisory Committee says our abortion laws were written 40 years ago and they're long overdue for review.

Nicky Hager is again releasing a book in election year, but its subject is a mystery.

COMMENT: Bill English lacks his predecessor's energy and easy charm, says Audrey Young.