Wairoa Airport will undergo a $4.2 million upgrade aimed at strengthening the region’s resilience and supporting future growth, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones said the ...

Labour made a final push last week against plans to quadruple the maximum prison sentence for shoplifting of goods worth $500 or less. The party pressed the issue during the committee of the whole ...

A suite of incoming changes to immigration law could create insecurity among migrants in the country, Indian diaspora groups and experts have told MPs. The justice select committee is currently ...

Analysis: On a November evening last year, inside the Manukau Civic Building in South Auckland, the newly-elected members of the Otara-Papatoetoe Local Board gathered for their first meeting after the ...

Long before instant meals and neatly packed meal prep became the norm, people relied on resourceful ways to prepare and preserve their food. They fermented to extend shelf life, baked over open ...

On a flight to the Gold Coast in 2005, Dhiru Bhikha made a bold statement to his then-teenage son, as they unwrapped the lollies Air New Zealand provides passengers towards the end of each flight.

Opinion: Announcements about changes to the Skilled Migrant Category this election year have been widely welcomed by immigration advisers and lawyers as a significant improvement on the flawed ...

Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered a disciplined budget today, asking New Zealanders to accept continued restraint in return for promises of longer-term economic growth – and an ...

Last week, a man of Indian origin sat in his home in rural New Zealand and finally breathed a sigh of relief. For most of this year, his dream of building a life in the Land of the Long White Cloud ...

After 10 years, five leaders and a name tweak, the Opportunity Party is on the cusp of making it into Parliament for the first time. And leader Qiulae Wong knows it is make-or-break. The upstarts ...

When Japan lends India billions of dollars at near-zero interest rates, it is often framed as generosity. It isn’t. It’s strategy. Deliberate, patient and deeply geopolitical. Through its development ...

Analysis: One would have hoped the Indian government's announcement Narendra Modi is coming to New Zealand was a sign a consensus on the bilateral trade deal was finally emerging among our political ...