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A yawning gap between National and Labour doesn’t get Megan Woods down

Close, but so far no “baubles of office” for Winston Peters and NZ First. “We have done the impossible,” he told supporters on election night. But as the old saying goes, politics is the art of the possible.

The Greens' big, fresh-faced caucus must decide how closely they can work with a National-led government and the party's direction when its long-serving co-leader considers his future. Jonathan Milne reports.

Christopher Luxon headed to bed in the early hours of Sunday morning a Prime Minister with a National-Act majority, having ransacked Labour in safe red seats.

After turning the deep blue Tāmaki seat pink this weekend, Brooke van Velden is looming as the  Act Party’s next leader.

The National Party secured about 40 percent of the vote, putting it in a position to form a new administration.

A funereal air descends on Labour’s election night event in Christchurch

For Srivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty, who bagged an impressive ‘double’ winning the women’s singles and doubles titles in the recently-held Fenesta National tennis championship in Delhi, it has been a different kind of a challenge - to stay calm during those emotional moments at the end of the day’s stint when…

Labour and National strongholds were stormed by their political opponents last night