Opinion: Political parties need to stop making promises that don’t have clear costing and implementation in place. Michael Swanson makes the case for a policy costing unit.

Former Mystics winning coach Helene Wilson is realising her dream to coach an international netball side, the men's Net Blacks, in a baptism of fire ...

Is the government's new directive that public services should be prioritised on the basis of need, not race, a championing of equity - or has it just removed a vital tool from decision-makers?

A controversial diagnosis used against a man facing execution in the US helped convict an NZ woman featured in the latest Newsroom investigative podcast Fractured ...

From The Detail: In the space of a decade Featherston has reinvented itself, from a broken down P-plagued problem place, to a vibrant reading centre ...

Opinion: The Green Party's embrace of the party-hopping law to oust its former MP from Parliament is not about values but ...

Dancing Darleen is showing no signs of leaving. As Dancing Darleen crashes around the lounge. “Who invited her anyway?” Chlöe whispers in horror. Ricardo just shrugs helplessly.

On Crown Law’s website the role of the Solicitor-General is outlined very clearly. “The Solicitor-General holds office as an official of government and is also ...

Ashley Bloomfield has co-authored a paper arguing the lessons of Covid-19 need to be better integrated into future pandemic planning. Pool photo: Hagen Hopkins Not all the lessons learned from ...

The Royal Commission has revealed systemic abuse of hundreds of thousands of children in state care. But it also uncovered what it calls a cover-up. At what point do these actions cross a line into ...

A complaint about freshwater reform lacking public scrutiny has not been upheld by Parliament’s Speaker, despite the minister conceding the process wasn’t ideal ...

Paul Goldsmith says officials have warned him about the risks associated with his Government's controversial Treaty provisions review. Photo: Lynn Grieveson Officials have told the Government its ...