The current mayor and a big fan of sister cities, Grant Smith is running for a fifth term. Current councillor Orphée Mickalad is standing again as a councillor and also going for mayor, as is animal ...

At the UN in New York, the NZ position on Palestinian statehood is revealed. Plus: a 'battering' on the economy and an energy market review.

Gravity Let Me Go by Trent Dalton (HarperCollins, $38) is available to purchase at Unity Books. Trent Dalton is appearing live in a one-off event in Auckland on October 15; and Trent Dalton’s Love ...

The government is set to unveil long-awaited reforms to the energy sector, and unions are calling on it to put the gentailers back in public hands.<br /> ...

Act MP Cameron Luxton is a spiritual being in an animal body.

The government's new earthquake-prone building rules aren't without risks, but they might finally give Wellington the confidence to grow.

The US is now the only permanent member of the UN Security Council not to recognise Palestinian statehood. The US ambassador to the UN calls state recognition a “performance”. Former New Zealand ...

Ash Davida Jane is satisfied by the ‘crunchy’ qualities of Sophie van Waardenberg’s debut collection, No Good.

With all but one current councillor seeking re-election, the country’s second largest region could be in for another tumultuous term.

It was a strange and eventful night, but in the end all candidates united on one, potentially impossible, course of action.

On Monday, building and construction minister Chris Penk told reporters the government would remove the New Building Standards ratings used to determine whether a building has a low, medium or high ...

Many in Queenstown also support density, particularly in Frankton, the area around the airport, five kilometres from the main town. Well-connected by bus, with several big supermarkets and the high ...