As briefings show officials describing New Zealand as “in strategic alignment with the United States”, Helen Clark and Marco ...

A court is asked to determine if Fonterra should be allowed to say its butter is from cows 100 percent grass-fed, when up to 20 percent comes from imported palm kernel ...

It is still a party drug today, popularly called nangs or NOS and typically sold in small cannisters at local dairies. Max Phillips, head of Students for Sensible Drug Policy in Dunedin says its ...

Following industry group pleas, changes to keystone freshwater policy were recommended without ever seeing public scrutiny.

Big job losses across the country are prompting calls for the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates more aggressively next week ...

Analysis: The Commerce Commission's thinking throughout the Foodstuffs merger centred on the threat to suppliers, with the flow-through effect on checkout prices left unquantified, writes ...

Becky Manawatu’s long-awaited new novel ‘moved me every bit as much as Auē’, writes Lauren Keenan Start your day with a ...

Consultant anesthetist Claire Ireland says she was was shocked and appalled by the ministerial announcement. Photo: David Williams Regular leaks in Dunedin Hospital’s operating theatres are bad enough ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a meeting with the Security Cabinet after Iran's missile attacks on Israel in West Jerusalem on October 1. Photo: Getty Images Expert opinion from ...

Former Dutch chief of defence Tom Middendorp says his eyes were opened to the link between climate change and security during his time in Afghanistan. Photo: Getty Images As a senior military officer ...

Becky Manawatu, photographed in September 2024 by Yvette Robinson. There is a really great conventional novel inside Becky Manawatu’s new novel Kataraina, conventional as in something anyone can read ...

'To the more than 35,000 people who protested in Dunedin last Saturday, it simply looked like the cancer drugs saga all over again – a promise made in the heat of an election campaign that the ...