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Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says he’s not by concerned by China’s new ethnic unity law, stressing it has no power or authority in New Zealand.

Two Northland sisters say they’re devastated a rare wetland forest where their father’s ashes are scattered could be felled to make way for a new highway.

Analysis: In Auckland today there are just shy of 600 people sleeping rough, while the number of immediate overnight beds available is just 35, according to the best available data.

The new United States ambassador says it is not for him to change New Zealand laws, but he would like the opportunity to work on the country’s nuclear policy.

Analysis: A climate change lawsuit making its way through the courts continues to prove one of New Zealand’s most historic legal cases.

*Correction: This story has been updated to clarify who this would impact

Christopher Luxon is downplaying the absence of his foreign affairs minister during what he calls an historic visit from the Indian prime minister.

Analysis - Of all the political parties contesting New Zealand’s looming general election, one seems to be generating more buzz than almost any other.

Just 60 percent of families who are meant to benefit from a weekly fuel relief payment have received it to date.

Experts are crying foul at a suggestion from the associate health minister she’ll consider reviewing the excise structure on tobacco.

ACT want to impose a Three Strikes regime for burglary, requiring a minimum three-year prison sentence with no parole for anyone convicted of burglary three times.

Narendra Modi has landed in Auckland on a whistlestop tour in the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 40 years.

The Trade Minister maintains India is on the same page as New Zealand in regards to the Free Trade Agreement, despite Narendra Modi referencing a particular clause as a “commitment” to invest.

The trucking industry is disappointed to see two Auckland roading projects relegated to the slow lane as part of a “phased approach” to the Roads of National Significance delivery.

Fear surrounding the incoming move on orders is already pushing rough sleepers of out Auckland’s central city, says a social service provider.

Paul Henry says he is “absolutely not interested” in ever taking leadership of the ACT Party and has not spoken with leader David Seymour about it.

A group challenging a ban on puberty blockers has told a court that the decision was not - and has never been - about medication, and if it were, it would have been banned across the board.

Analysis: National appears to be baked in as a party of 30 or below with at least eight reputable polls this year, including the recent RNZ-Reid Research, having the party slump into the 20s.

Chris Hipkins insists Labour hasn’t lost its momentum, despite dropping in support since January.

Claims that a court case against major greenhouse gas emitters would put companies out of business are “frankly hyperbolic”, a select committee has heard.

The Act leader has suggested smartphones could be banned for under-16-year-olds.

There is no suggestion the contents of Seymour’s messages were inappropriate, but people who corresponded with him when they were in school say the interactions shouldn’t have happened.

Bird flu has been detected in New Zealand.

Councils will have to come up with adaptation plans for communities at high risk from climate change hazards, under a proposed law change.

The Justice Minister insists the government’s move-on orders are being mischaracterised as the Police Association raises concerns.

Tormented by transience, Caitlin McDonald’s life was as fragile and fleeting as the butterflies she saved from the street. Surviving less than two years homeless in Christchurch, she chronicled her journey in hundreds of YouTube videos filmed on her phone. Jean Edwards reports on her tragic metamorphosis from radiant spirit to rough sleeper, dead at 47.

The government’s claiming victory with the latest benefit data, while the opposition says it shows the coalition’s failed to deliver on its plans to slash the number of people who are out of work.

The two new Cook Strait ferries will be named Kupe and Cook.

“Granddad was blue, dad was blue, I was blue until I woke up,” a New Zealand First member who previously supported National told RNZ on Saturday.

Shane Jones says looking after “our own people” isn’t racist, it’s what a nationalist party that represents the interests of New Zealanders protects.

New Zealand First will invest in surveying the country’s offshore basins for oil and gas supplies to use domestically and export around the world, if elected.

A climate activist says New Zealand First’s billion-dollar pledge for oil and gas exploration would be better spent on investing in renewables.

The government is providing up to $60 million in financial support to Golden Bay Cement to ensure its Northland operations can continue.

The Employment Leave Bill promotes insecure work and will leave thousands of workers worse off, the Labour Party and the Greens say.

New Zealand First deputy Shane Jones says his “knee pads” jibe was a “harmless and innocuous expression” that could have meant anything from gardening to volleyball.

The prime minister says comments made by New Zealand First’s deputy leader about the free trade agreement (FTA) with India were “crass and unprofessional”, saying his coalition partner is on the wrong side of history.

A national plan for introducing more tolls on roads and a strategy for using more tolling powers are running two years behind schedule.

Inflation hit a two year high as the full impact of the Middle East war made itself felt on prices.

Labour says the government scrapping council agreements with local Māori will mean “a lot” of relitigating existing Treaty settlements.

Senior National MP Chris Bishop says it’s “highly unlikely” he would retain his electorate seat on current polling.

New Zealand is bracing for a potential small increase in US President Donald Trump’s tariffs to 12.5 percent, Trade Minister Todd McClay says.

The Finance Minister says US President Donald Trump is to blame for New Zealand’s rising inflation.

The Prime Minister says comments by New Zealand First candidate Stuart Nash about a National MP’s maternity leave are “sexist”, and he along with his party are “channelling the manosphere”.

The prime minister insists New Zealand will meet its climate change targets, despite a report saying they are very much at risk of being missed.

The Children’s Commissioner says the latest report on child poverty reveals the country’s “national shame”.

*Correction: This story has been updated to correct a figure supplied by the Water Services Authority

National leader Christopher Luxon has pushed back on criticism over his party’s record on paid parental leave, saying he’s focused on the future.

Christopher Luxon says nobody should be surprised by his call to rule out working with the Opportunity Party - despite the new position being revealed without notice at the very end of a media conference.

National would be “very unwise” to push ahead with a social media ban on under-16-year-olds “at the expense of coalition unity”, ACT leader David Seymour says.

A group of central North Island iwi has unveiled a proposal to reorganise local government around the region’s mountains, river catchments and the communities connected to them.

A resident on a central Auckland street say multiple boarded up houses and vacant lots have been “left to rot”, after a major Kainga Ora project was stopped last year.

The government has accepted “in some form” all Covid-19 inquiry’s recommendations, promising key advice will be made public within five working days in future pandemics.

Plans to redevelop Scott Base have been signed off by Cabinet, after being scaled back to get the project under budget.

Christopher Luxon has criticised Winston Peters for making “inappropriate attention-seeking comments” after the foreign minister told a Chinese-born New Zealand MP to “go back to your own country”.

China has expressed its concerns to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over comments Winston Peters made to Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan.

The government has signed a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement with Northway consortium to build the first section of the Northland Expressway between Warkworth and Te Hana.

English will join Te Reo Māori and sign language as an official language of New Zealand, after the English Language Bill passed its third and final reading at Parliament.