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Veteran National MP Nick Smith apologised for voting against gay marriage, and cited his work in conservation as a career highlight, in his valedictory speech in Parliament. Video

New documents show tensions arose between government departments over who should get border exemptions and how the dairy industry lost out in favour of space and film projects.

Australia is under pressure to release a refugee family from a Christmas Island detention centre after their three-year-old child had to be medically evacuated to the mainland.

A bill on water fluoridation decisions has passed its second reading at Parliament - more than four years after it was first introduced.

The ACT Party says the government's being asked to "ban and ban and tax its way out of climate change" by the Climate Commission.

Ngāti Pāoa members occupying a site at Putiki Bay on Waiheke Island are vowing to stay put until the resource consent for the development of a marina is revoked.

A bill transferring control of water fluoridation from local councils to the Director General of Health is back before Parliament this week

The bosses of all airlines that offer UK-US flights and Heathrow Airport issued a joint call for a trans-Atlantic travel "corridor".

Singing the national anthem in te reo at the 1999 Rugby World Cup started a conversation on the absence of te reo Māori in our everyday lives, says Dame Hinewehi Mohi. Audio

A sweeping new law in North Korea makes the smuggling of foreign news, films or drama punishable by death.

It might not have looked like it after Lewis Hamilton disappeared up the escape road before the end of the race, but ultimately he and Mercedes got away with a poor weekend at the Azerbaijan Grand…

A tax expert is warning the G7 proposal to establish a digital services tax could have implications for some of New Zealand's biggest companies.

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele says he will send a bill to Congress to make bitcoin legal tender, touting its potential to help Salvadorans living abroad send remittances home.

The Niue Finance Minister says fundamental economic changes are needed in the wake of the pandemic.

Local government is about to go through a major reorganisation that will affect all our lives. Researcher Jean Drage calls for urgent debate about what's needed.

The Pacific Kids' Learning team has just completed their pilot programme where they taught 50 Pasifika students in South Auckland how to create animation stories. Audio

Teachers backing the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum say it will help close sometimes woeful gaps in young people's knowledge of this country's past.