Simon Wilson: Slum designs or no new social housing at all?

Opinion: The Government's plans for social housing are making everything worse.

Editorial: AI's increasing lies may reflect it is learning from humans

OPINION: Answers provided by ChatGPT and Google's Overview are regularly misleading.

How $2.15m home became worth just $50k; plan for flood-damaged properties revealed

One storm-damaged house has fallen in value from $2.15 million to $50,000.

Coalition cracks? Leaders dismiss claims Govt in disarray over UN letter

But they appeared on different pages about the Government's formal response.

PB Tech offers fix for Xiaomi phones as 3G shutdown looms

Thousands of devices will stop working – or fully working – later this year.

Tax break? Govt urged to make it cheaper for employers to provide health insurance

But the change could cost the Crown hundreds of millions of dollars.

Work starts on new $110m Napier civic precinct

'I remember tears when everyone was leaving the building. There was a lot of uncertainty.'

Independence day for EIT

Regional governance returns to 10 polytechnics on January 1, 2026.

Te Pāti Māori fails again to file financial documents on time

The Electoral Commission says no decisions about referrals to police have been made.

Editorial: Hoons in cars and on bikes have no place in our communities

OPINION: Affected residents have every right to live in peace.

Minister considers compensation for owners of banned bitcoin ATMs

The Government is living up to its Regulatory Standards Bill and considering compensation.

Letters: Minister’s power statement shouldn’t be taken seriously

OPINION: The general electorate knows better than to believe it.

Childlike sex dolls are being smuggled into NZ in parts through a legal loophole

Australia seizes part-dolls as well as full dolls – NZ Customs' boss thinks we should too.

Gisborne councillor Colin Alder considers another run for mayor

Nominations for the election close at noon on August 1.

Guy Body’s cartoons: July 1 - 31

Our cartoonist Guy Body shares his view on current events.

Audrey Young: Who would lead if Luxon couldn't?

There are a couple of likely scenarios – and a bold scenario.

Emails reveal Willis wanted Budget lock-up to be more restricted

Treasury staffer also floated lock-up interview ban.

Editorial: Why the Tāmaki Makaurau byelection matters for Labour

OPINION: The Tāmaki Makaurau byelection was triggered by MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp's death.

Letters: A Kiwi road cone ode

OPINION: Should we put player names on the back of All Blacks jerseys?

Opinion: Why Mary Meeker's latest AI insights can't be ignored

Influential trends report by 'Queen of the Internet' returns after six-year hiatus.

'Life-shattering diagnosis': He can't walk, talk or breathe without a machine

Three Kiwis with motor neurone disease share how they make every precious day count.

Editorial: Using immigration as a primary tool to drive economic growth is risky business

OPINION: We need more people in NZ – and we also need to attract the right mindsets.

'Negligent': First mother-baby HIV cases diagnosed in NZ in 20 years

Routine screening had effectively eliminated perinatal HIV cases – until now.

Shane Te Pou: Time for a fair deal from retirement villages

Residents face long waits for refunds, averaging five and a half months.

'A moment of madness and impulse': The day uni lecturer gave a lesson dressed as a woman

Ciara Cremin says life as a trans woman is hard but now she can't live any other way.

Letters: We need greater mental health services to prevent more tragedies

OPINION: As each decade passes, one becomes more disenchanted with our political system.

‘Affront to NZ’s sovereignty’: David Seymour v the United Nations

The Deputy Prime Minister sent a terse letter to the UN over indigenous rights.

'Fix the cracks': Auckland man claims home damaged by roadworks vibrations

AT is conducting vibration tests after complaints about noise and shaking.

'You weren’t sure who you could trust’: Sue Wood's time in ‘snake pit' National Party

Ex-National Party president Sue Wood to revisit Muldoon's 84 snap election in new memoir.

Auckland retiree faces eviction as ground rent jumps 344%

The Dilworth Trust increased the annual leasehold fee from $45,000 to $202,000 per year.

Steve Braunias asks Polkinghorne if the eye surgeon killed his wife

Steve Braunias called the Polkinghorne murder trial "the apex of a very long career".

Fran O'Sullivan: New Zealand must move on from Ardern criticism to get real benefit from Covid inquiry

OPINION: Covid response should be examined dispassionately so NZ can learn for the future.

Woman awarded $500k after deceitful sale of rotting Auckland house

One defendant used a dehumidifier to falsely claim the house was dry.

'Courage is contagious': The return of the Rainbow Warrior and other Auckland news

Opinion: Love this City looks at Auckland Council and other city news of the week.

Letters: Students have always tried to find ways to cheat in exams

OPINION: Why is the Government proud it used AI to help write its AI strategy?

Editorial: It’s time to toughen the drink-driving laws

OPINION: The problem spans across our communities and society.

Letters: Drugs may have a place but they’re not the foundation of a healthy society

OPINION: Road cones, a Buddhist statue, shoplifting and bringing back the moa.

Gisborne's Grey St protests ongoing one year on as review looms

A review of the effects of changes on the street is due in October, before any decisions.

Thomas Coughlan: Regulatory Standards Bill shakes coalition and breaks Parliament

Opinion: Act has made it clear if the bill doesn't pass, the coalition is over.

'Dastardly deed in dead of night': Ex-Nats president slams Govt on pay equity

Sue Wood says she feels disconnected from the current party's direction.

‘Huge upheaval’: Big Govt department's tech team to be cut

The Ministry of Social Development says most of those affected will be redeployed.

Audrey Young: Trevor Mallard's moa comments prove weirdly prescient

OPINION: The former Speaker was widely mocked in 2014. Who's laughing now?

'A sad loss': Why this prostate cancer treatment is 'disappearing' in NZ

'It’s not the treatment that’s the problem,' a urologist says.

Backers abandoned $200m Auckland Arena project over council hurdles: sources

Extended timelines and complexities on public land were major hurdles.