The Latest Breaking News from Jacinda Ardern

PM says budget, which includes major spending on climate and health care reform, aims to ensure long term ‘economic and social security’

New Zealand Finance Minister Grant Robertson will deliver the fifth budget of Jacinda Ardern's two-term government on Thursday.

Prime ministerial candidates borrow from NZ policy – but major trans-Tasman change is unlikely.

New Zealand's opposition National party has attacked Jacinda Ardern's emissions reduction plan as "mush" and "plans to have other plans".

New Zealand has long been seen as the moderate, even absent, voice on China in the "Five Eyes" western alliance, so much so that its commitment to the group was questioned just 12 months ago.

New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Lower and middle income families will benefit from ‘scrap and replace’ scheme, while 20% cut in car, van and ute trips sought

Joining the host of country heads who has contracted COVID is New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and this has come barely two weeks into the reopening of the country's borders to a slew of countries.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tested positive for COVID-19 with moderate symptoms, her office said in a statement on Saturday. She will not be in parliament for the government's emissions reduction plan on Monday and the budget on Thursday, but "travel arrangements for her trade mission to the United…

‘Despite best efforts, unfortunately I’ve joined the rest of my family and have tested positive for COVID 19,’ she posted on her official Instagram page

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern tests positive for COVID-19 after experiencing moderate symptoms, forcing her to perform her duties remotely while isolating.