Surveyor Daniel Williams will chair Auckland’s new Regional Transport Committee, which writes the city’s 30-year transport plan. Here is who sits on it and how it votes.
Employers would no longer need staff to keep logbooks for work vehicles under a tax bill Revenue Minister Simon Watts introduced to Parliament on 10 September, two weeks before the…
Six community groups that take children surfing, dirt biking, kayaking, boxing and tramping will share $2.4 million in the Government’s second round of funding for sport-based youth crime prevention. Sport…
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop says a law change going through Parliament next week will let councils charge fast-track developers more for the roads, pipes and services their projects need. His…
The India free trade bill has cleared select committee with a fix for part-year fruit quotas, leaving six sitting days to pass it before the election.
MSD’s review into wrongly suspended winter energy payments and benefits found 16,270 superannuitants and veterans were affected and $2.5 million in arrears was paid back.
The Ministry for Regulation has released 24 recommendations to cut hospitality red tape, but ministers have not yet decided which ones they will accept.
National would redistribute the International Visitor Levy to councils from July 2027, worth about $385 million over four years, replacing the bed tax it ruled out.
Labour has done the sums on freezing fuel excise duty for a full term but will not release them until Treasury opens the books on 29 September.
Shane Jones and Chris Bishop have approved the first two investments from the $200 million Gas Security Fund, lending up to $23.5 million to Todd Energy for drilling in Taranaki.
National would replace the $95,000 and $150,000 income caps on the First Home Loan scheme with a single $300,000 cap, widening access to 5 percent deposits.
Enrolment for the 7 November election closes at midnight on 25 October and almost 188,000 people aged 18 to 24 are still not on the roll.
New Zealand earned $4.98 billion from international education in the year to June 2026, beating the pre-pandemic peak, but enrolments are still about 14 per cent below 2019.
More than a dozen councils will have a smaller share of their road bills paid by the New Zealand Transport Agency over the next three years, and the change arrives…
The North-West Rapid Transit project has been granted fast-track approval, but funding only covers work up to 2027.
Departing National MP Andrew Bayly says the superannuation age should climb by a month a year from 2029, and Treasury’s own numbers show the pension bill nearly doubling in a…
Parliament has unanimously passed the lifejacket bill, requiring everyone on recreational craft of six metres or less to wear a properly fitted lifejacket when underway.
Parliament’s Justice Committee is expected to recommend the move-on orders bill no longer apply to anyone under 18, with its report due back on Thursday.
The Education and Workforce Committee has recommended the Modern Slavery Bill be passed, with ACT the only party opposed. Parliament has nine sitting days left.
Labour says it will offer every New Zealand trained nurse a public health job at graduation, a $525 million guarantee that runs into a wall officials described to the Health…
National would cut the compulsory student loan repayment rate to 10 cents in the dollar from April 2027 and add a percentage point of interest for borrowers living overseas.
The Prime Minister says remaining in the Paris Agreement is non-negotiable after the election, putting him at odds with ACT and New Zealand First.
ACT has released a six-part fisheries policy with a nationwide daily limit of 10 shellfish and a permanent end to scallop dredging in closed North Island fisheries.
The retiring Whangārei MP used his valedictory speech to tell the soft drink industry to reformulate, and to explain the six hours he says saved the most lives in his…
The leaders of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau met as a group for the first time in Auckland, days before the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau.
The Emergency Management Bill passed its third and final reading on Friday, replacing the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 after two failed and restarted attempts.
MSD has confirmed benefit payments were wrongly suspended after last year’s mandatory reviews law, days after Christopher Luxon and Louise Upston told Parliament it had not happened.
A 12 cent a litre fuel excise rise is due on 1 January and neither big party wants it. Cabinet must decide by 31 August, and the road freight lobby…
Buy Bitcoin in New Zealand today, sell it at a profit tomorrow or in ten years, and the tax treatment is the same. The gain counts as income and it…
Parliament has nine sitting days left before it rises on 24 September, and about 100 bills are still somewhere in the process.