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The race is well under way within the Democratic Party to select a challenger to Donald Trump in next November's presidential election in the United States.

National's Ōtaki MP and former Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy will retire at the next election.

Christopher Luxon hasn't even joined the political race, but still features in the preferred prime minister stakes in the latest One News Colmar Brunton poll.

A Nauru MP, aiming for re-election in next month's poll, says he wants to focus on fixing up what he says is a collapsing health system.

The government is now "working on the assumption" of a no-deal Brexit, Michael Gove has said.

Russian police have arrested more than 1000 people in Moscow in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent times against an increasingly defiant opposition challenging President Vladimir Putin's tight…

Bougainville's referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea has been put back six weeks, the province's Minister for Peace Agreement Implementation says.

Former Auckland mayor John Banks won't be having another crack at the job, saying he would take too many votes away from John Tamihere.

Power Play - Whispering campaigns have undermined unanimous caucus support for Simon Bridges, but the National Party leader says he believes he can survive, writes Jane Patterson.

Whangārei District Council is the latest local body to formally sound the alarm over greenhouse gas emissions, by declaring a climate change emergency.

A member of a conservative US group has been fired after projecting a doctored version of the presidential seal at an event featuring President Donald Trump.

The US Justice Department has reinstated a two-decades long dormant policy allowing the federal government's use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled executions.

Locals are furious a consent granted six years ago to bottle water in Upper Hutt went unnoticed because the Wellington Regional Council refused to publicly notify it.

The Greens have been forced into a swift apology and backdown on an attack ad they ran against the National Party leader Simon Bridges. Video

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Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc was forecast to win a solid majority in an upper house election that could determine whether his dream of revising the post-war, US-drafted pacifist constitution can be kept…

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has doubled down on her criticism of Australia's deportation policy as "corrosive", ahead of her meeting with counterpart Scott Morrison.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will touch down in Melbourne this afternoon, four months after her planned visit to the city was called off due to the Christchurch terror attack.

Nauru is to go the polls on August 24th.

Bougainvilleans have been told to play an active part in preparing for the referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea.

The Bougainville Referendum Commission is aiming to enrol hundreds of Bougainvilleans living in remote mining and agricultural communities in Papua New Guinea.