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The Just Transitions Unit at the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment was closed by the coalition government in May after ACT Party leader David Seymour called it a "talk-fest".

The government says it closed a unit aimed at helping fossil fuel workers into new jobs, because the programme did not align with its priorities.

"It's just incredible what this government will do," Willie Jackson says. Audio

Since leaving Parliament, the former ACT leader had provided pro-bono advice to Māori trusts, hapū and iwi.

KidsCan will deliver a new healthy lunches for kids in early childhood education, using savings from the new school lunches programme.

The government has accepted the white paper that came out of the country's inaugural national summit on medicines.

By letting students spend a whole day each week working on vocational projects and electives, Papakura High School has started to see big improvements in student attendance and engagement.

Government ministers have pushed back after the Wellington mayor accused them of "punching down" in their recent criticisms of her council.

Simeon Brown has set a "deeply worrying" low bar with his stated reasons for stepping in, a professor says. Audio

At least one principal is unhappy with the changes to the school lunch programme. Audio

David Seymour says the beef rissoles dish is "one of the best meals that you're going to have".

Tory Whanau says her council will work collaboratively with the government, after its decision to appoint a Crown Observer.

It says the new menu will save more than $130 million a year.

"We weren't allowed to be open for customers, we would have opened if the government granted us extended hours like it did with the Rugby World Cup."

Hosting means influential people visiting, enabling New Zealand to showcase its industries, not least its cutting-edge design and technology, the former PM says. Audio

One of the former Green MP's lawyers says she wants the party to wait for a 'definitive' court ruling before booting her out of Parliament. Audio

Blood cancer patients say they have potentially years of work and paying tax ahead of them, but that it's not being counted. Audio

Analysis - Green Party members are deciding tonight on whether to expel Darleen Tana from Parliament - so how will the process play out?

Explainer - Thousands of jobs have been cut but it's a drop in the bucket of the overall expenses.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis wants ethnic communities to help double the country's export value over the next 10 years.

A Māori barrister hopes new guidelines will make judges and lawyers think carefully about the factors that put people before the courts.