11:02 NZST Wed May 22 2013
Mana has chosen television presenter and musician Te Hamua Nikora to contest the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election.
10:00 NZST Wed May 22 2013
The Independent Police Conduct Authority's report on police actions in the contentious Urewera case will be released on Wednesday.
08:13 NZST Wed May 22 2013
New Zealand could send peacekeeping troops to support a peace deal between Israel and Palestine, if one can be brokered.
07:06 NZST Wed May 22 2013
Hamilton City Council's lowest-paid staff are in for a big boost with the council voting to adopt a living wage of $18.40 an hour.
05:00 NZST Wed May 22 2013
Waitemata Distrcit Health Board is defending it's ban on smoking, saying it's good for all patients.
03:00 NZST Wed May 22 2013
Opposition parties say Education Minister Hekia Parata needlessly put Nelson's Salisbury School through 'a year of hell'.
18:31 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Labour's Phil Goff says the Defence Force sent 'insensitive and insulting' letters to 315 uniformed staff when it made them redundant in 2011.
17:59 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Two waterspouts have been seen on Manukau Harbour in Auckland, and Weather Watch says there is a danger of more, or of tornadoes, on Wednesday.
17:02 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Nearly 300 New Zealanders are registered as being in Oklahoma but none have as yet sought help from MFAT since a deadly tornado struck.
16:55 NZST Tue May 21 2013
The government was still trying to sell Solid Energy just days before it announced it was in serious financial strife, Labour says.
16:43 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Australian laws passed last year which try to stamp out incentives encouraging truck drivers to work unsafely are needed in New Zealand, a union says.
16:30 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Liam Dunne says video footage of his near-fatal fall after a parachute failure on a skydive doesn't bother him because he lived to see it.
16:28 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Opposition parties are questioning the credibility of the latest report on the GCSB and say it should be released.
16:00 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Labour says the government has shown a 'weak attitude' toward beefing up laws to punish companies that don't meet health and safety obligations.
14:54 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Education Minister Hekia Parata has visited Nelson's Salisbury School for special needs girls and has confirmed it will stay open.
14:08 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Animal rights activists, walking about 20 dogs, have demonstrated outside parliament against the use of animals to test party pills.
13:53 NZST Tue May 21 2013
New Zealand's Mt Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary has been labelled as a 'great Briton' by an English newspaper editorial.
13:42 NZST Tue May 21 2013
DETAILS OF GCSB SPYING.
11:37 NZST Tue May 21 2013
The Independent Police Conduct Authority's report on police actions in the contentious Urewera case will be released on Wednesday.
10:50 NZST Tue May 21 2013
Foreign Minister Murray McCully tells a US/NZ Partnership Forum in Washington that the relationship has progressed from "suboptimal" to excellent.