An average of around 70 million litres of untreated wastewater has been pouring into the capital's South Coast since Wednesday morning. That is a huge amount of wastewater, but also need to put into ...

A Green MP wants tohorā/whales to be recognised as legal persons. In New Zealand, laws have been passed to grant legal personhood to natural features, allowing them to be represented in court and have ...

Today we remember the death of over six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, and the death of millions of Poles, Russians, Roma, the disabled, political opponents, and homosexuals by the ...

The furore surrounding the storied Adelaide Writers Festival, the longest-running and largest literary festival in Australia and one that receives significant taxpayer funding, has made international ...

A man believed to have suffered around 1000 instances of sexual abuse as a young boy was scared into silence by his abuser’s threats. But 30 years on, after decades of pain, the man has faced his ...

The Wellington City Council’s latest budget blowout has been revealed ‒ a $56 million shortfall between what was budgeted and reality. The second phase of the council’s social housing upgrade ...

February 6, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 06 February 2026 ...

Today we celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi - a day which should be called Emancipation Day. For on the 6th of February 1840, slavery became illegal in New Zealand. The granting of Britis ...

On Tuesday The Post published an op ed from me, arguing that the collapse of the rules based order meant that New Zealand should become the seventh state of Australia. I say: Since World War II there ...

A video of convicted murderer Scott Watson attacking another prisoner was played to the Parole Board as it met to decide if he should be released from jail after 27 years. In the video, several ...

Ani O'Brien has a long and excellent piece on the failure of organ donation reform. The TLDR version is: Strategy released in 2017 Law change passed in 2019 Funding of $3 million a year for ...