The Latest Breaking News from New Zealand

A couple from Sydney missed their wedding in Hobbiton after their cruise ship was denied entry by New Zealand's border authorities.

New Zealand's National party has shed a number of its election promises as it negotiated a coalition agreement with the ACT and NZ First parties.

Michael Maguire has stepped down from his role coaching the New Zealand national rugby league team, clearing the way for him to take the vacant NSW job.

Centre-right National Party forms three-way coalition with the classically liberal ACT and populist New Zealand First.

It might have taken six weeks to decide the shape of New Zealand’s next government (or three if you count from the final results), but in the end that is the nature of proportional representation. Compromise, trade-offs and haggling are the price of an MMP electoral system designed to avoid…

Winston Peters is an establishment pick as New Zealand's foreign minister, but increasingly sympathises with views well outside the mainstream on other issues.

New Zealanders can expect tax cuts, more police on the streets and less government bureaucracy, according to the three leaders who signed an agreement Friday to form a new government

After weeks of negotiations, incoming PM Christopher Luxon announces that populist Winston Peters and libertarian David Seymour will share deputy role

After six weeks of post-election negotiations, New Zealanders have learned the make-up and the policy agenda of their next government.