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Mittens the cat may be cute, but Aotearoa has many animals far more worthy of immortalising in bronze.

Tensions are running high in Ōtautahi as the city council prepares to vote on controversial new national housing density rules.

In a room in the Manaaki Whenua building in Auckland are rows and rows of shelves, with cardboard boxes containing an array of weird and wonderful dried fungi. Claire Concannon visits to learn how and…

Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell talked to Bryan Crump about a TVNZ emergency housing expose that also raised questions about coverage of the issue - and how the Herald set the record straight on a…

A group of Cantabrians are taking their local council to court after it allowed a development to go ahead on prime farmland.

Far North Mayor John Carter (QSO) will not be slowing down much when he ends New Zealand's longest-serving currently-active government career next month; he will simply be changing gear.

A city "being ripped apart" is how one mayoral candidate has responded to the nationwide exposure of Rotorua's emergency housing crisis.

MP for Waiariki Rawiri Waititi is calling for an independent inquiry into emergency housing.

The building consents system is "broken" and under-performing councils should face sanctions or even lose accreditation, says the Registered Master Builders Association.

Experts say the crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where fresh water is unavailable, is the result of generations of discrimination and segregation.

The downturn in the housing market is accelerating at a rate of decline not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis, CoreLogic says. Audio

Power Play - After kicking open the door to tax changes - a major vulnerability for the party - Labour has quickly slammed it shut again, RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson writes.

Civil appeal to Japan over nuclear dump fear; Nauru will go to the polls next month; and Pro-independence camp in New Caledonia strengthened by Pacific Awakening

Mississippi's National Guard was activated after a long-neglected treatment plant broke down, leaving most of the state capital without safe running water, possibly for days.

We've slowed immigration to a trickle to stave off infrastructure overload, but at what cost?

The governor-general has been dragged into a backlash over former prime minister Scott Morrison's secret ministries.

Donna Pokere-Phillips, who is co-leader of the Outdoors and Freedom Party, regularly shares content from anti-vaccination campaigners on her social media platforms.

Taiwan saw off Chinese forces six decades ago, and that resolve to defend the homeland continues today, Taiwan's president has told visiting former US officials.

The Reserve Bank says its money printing policies when the Covid pandemic hit in 2020 helped save the economy even though they also helped to overheat the economy and fuel inflation.