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Newshub reports: Despite thousands of state homes not meeting healthy homes standards, Newshub can reveal Kāinga Ora’s spent millions doing up its own offices. While Housing Minister Megan Woods says that’s a good thing because it means the agency is growing, National doesn’t agree. Kāinga Ora’s spent $24,354,759 of taxpayer money over the past four […]

After a largely frustrating 12 months in which three of the four race meetings due to host rounds of the 2021/22 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series were either cancelled outright or postponed, the drivers who made it to Hampton Downs ...

The winners of the 2022 Southland-Otago Dairy Industry Awards Share Farmer of the Year category say they are focused, organised and goal-driven and farm with passion to deliver excellence in their business. Emma and Hamish Day were announced winners ...

Although some parts of the world are reporting another rise in new COVID-19 infections, many countries are doing away with pandemic-related public health and social measures that were put in place over two years ago. Experts of Organized Medicine Academic ...

Press Release – WelTec Having started with delivering eight packages at the start of March, WelTec are now in week four of delivering over 35 kai (food) and care packages to isolating WelTec ākonga (students) and their whānau from Porirua through Upper Hutt and down the Hutt Valley to Wainuiomata. This has been enabled through […]

Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council Consultation has opened on some changes to the council’s Revenue and Financing policy, which describes how the regional council funds its expenditure. The policy outlines the sources of funding council uses for each activity. Current funding tools include general rates, targeted rates, fixed rates, fees and charges. The […]

Report from RNZ by Jimmy Ellingham Huge cranes are towering above the flat Rangitikei countryside as construction of two hangars for new Air Force aircraft continues at the Ōhakea Air Force base outside Bulls. The $250 million construction programme, which began in late 2020, is on track to be finished later next year. Te Whare […]

The UN chief on Friday welcomed the declaration of an indefinite humanitarian truce on the part of the Ethiopian Government, and the commitment by forces in the Tigray region to comply with the immediate ceasefire, amid deep concern for the five million ...

The top UN political affairs official urged the Security Council on Friday to be united in its response to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch – the country’s first long-range ...

Zac Stichbury hit form at Taupo with a blistering pole position lap. Picture Bruce Jenkins. The 20 year old Hawkes Bay driver backed up excellent Friday practice form to deliver a fast lap when it mattered in the Armstrongs supported Mackenzie Motorsport ...

Zac Stichbury led from lights to flag at the Taupo International Motorsport Park this afternoon, to record his first victory in the 2022 Toyota 86 Championship ahead of Brock Gilchrist. In the fight for the championship, a post-race five second time ...

After setting the fastest time in practice, then in qualifying, Shane Dias completed the trifecta to win Race One in the RYCO 24•7 V8 Utes racing at Taupo. But after a tense qualifying session earlier in the day that saw lap times for the 2nd to 6th ...

Desperate parents who were hoping for bold action to urgently improve education outcomes for their children continue to be let down by the Government, National’s Education spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “A damning report by The Education ...

“Children’s Minister Kelvin Davis has refused to apologise for saying people who submitted to a select committee were just “grizzling,” says ACT’s Children’s spokesperson Karen Chhour. “When I grew up dealing with Child, Youth and Family, ...

Oliver Hartwich writes: The Cold War era is often associated with the arms race between East and West. While that military confrontation between the two blocs was a key element of the Cold War, it was not the defining one. At its core, the Cold War was a philosophical divide: liberalism vs socialism, democracy vs totalitarianism, freedom […]

Over $300 million collected by the regional fuel tax is now sitting idle in the Government’s bank account while Aucklanders remain stuck in traffic, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “The Government continues to take money ...

Stuff reports: Drug use, violent behaviour, vandalism and other anti-social behaviour on a daily basis is “destroying our city”. That’s what Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick told Social Development and Employment Minister Carmel Sepuloni about Rotorua’s emergency housing motels, in a letter obtained by Stuff via an Official Information Act request. So a former Labour MP and Minister […]