In a country where hedgehogs have spread to almost every habitat, none live in this small South Island town. Here's why that's such a big deal.

With the speaker promising a dress-code crackdown, we identify successful fashion policy and room for improvement.

Rent/mortgage per week: $0 – I got a really good house-sitting gig and am very lucky. Student loan or other debt payments per week: About $150 a week student loan. Groceries: About $100 per week ...

Framed as a way to build national wealth and keep NZ assets in NZ hands, Labour’s new economic policy is heavy on patriotic branding but so far short on detail.<br /> <br /> ...

Amid wild accusations and police investigations, a man who's been running local elections for 40 years says this is the strangest one yet.

Season one of Juggernaut traversed the highs, lows and idiosyncracies of the fourth Labour government. Drawing on exclusive interviews with key players of the era and an extensive trawl of the archive ...

Homelessness has traditionally been seen as a social problem, supported by the welfare system and charitable services. It’s now reaching the point where we need to view it as an economic problem, a ...

With 10 days left until the final vote, the NZ First leader hopes to persuade Fonterra's owners to keep hold of our most famous dairy brands.<br /> <br /> ...

On Sunday night, Becky Manawatu (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Māmoe, Waitaha) won the Keri Hulme Award, hot on the heels of her Sargeson Prize win last week.

A new poem by Alice Miller. Antarctica Again. One morning I sat with Rebecca drinking coffee on Base watching seals out the window like we were in some zoo and I told her about my ...

Flaky, funky-looking blocks from Pams have some consumers crying foul. What’s going on? In case you missed the many, many news stories and numerous explainers, butter’s expensive. With 500g blocks ...

Excerpts from a conversation with the former prime minister a few months before his death.