Australians live longer than we do, in bigger houses, and have more leisure time.

The 2025 Taskforce has delivered exactly the kind of extreme right-wing-policy prescription its critics had predicted it would.

A plan to close the wealth gap with Australia is "too radical" for Bill English, who says economic parity by 2025 is an "aspirational" rather than realistic goal

Even with two earners, Donna and Terry Victory struggle on below-average wages to feed themselves and their 14-year-old daughter.

Booze checks in the greater Auckland area indicate the number of drunk drivers under 20 has risen by 77 per cent compared with three years ago.

Creation of biggest gambling society in NZ expected to cost up to 27 jobs.

A govt committee has called for a veto of a proposed referendum aimed at making citizen-initiated referendums binding.

The Government's biggest home visiting programme is under review after researchers found its US counterpart failed to reduce child abuse.

In the biggest methamphetamine bust in New Zealand this year, 6kg of the the class A drug was intercepted at Auckland airport.

Ngati Whatua has given up part of its land at Bastion Point for homeless people to grow vegetables for the City Mission's foodbank.