The Latest Breaking News from NZ

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is poised to unveil new border settings for New Zealand in response to spreading Omicron cases of COVID-19.

New Zealand's Daryl Mitchell has been named the recipient of the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award after his gesture in the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi-final against England in Abu Dhabi.

The Government is comfortable the NZSIS is following human rights obligations, despite two instances where it received information likely tied to torture.

Amid all the talk of soaring rents and petrol prices, there's an unexpected and significant new contributor to NZ's high inflation.

There is no doubt life is becoming much more expensive in New Zealand as inflation hits a three-decade high, influenced by both domestic and international factors such as increased food, energy and housing costs, pent-up demand for consumer goods, and ongoing supply-chain disruptions.

A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded overseas due to COVID-19 border restrictions is urging the NZ government to find a way to help women like her, saying she went public because her lawyer had represented 30 women who had been through it before.

It wasn't quite like the War of the Roses movie, but the War of the Prestons reached NZ's top court and might have changed the way judges assess unfairness in marital splits involving trusts

Climate change is a global problem requiring a global solution, but individual nations like New Zealand can play a role and must do so, writes Kevin Trenberth

No matter how intense or heated the discussion may be, NZ universities need to address the difference between ideology and science, writes Elizabeth Rata 

While we might be doing a reasonable job of ticking off the environmental and the corporate governance components of ESG, we’ve largely ignored the social impacts of business

Comment: Dame Anne Salmond lays out the fundamental problems with this country's strategy to use pine forests and overseas offsets to help wish away our climate emissions