A Feilding teacher has been censured and struck off after being found guilty of locking children in rooms, smacking them and feeding them out-of-date food.
A digital billboard poking fun at NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi has appeared near an intersection in New Plymouth where its contractors have recently finished work.
Families will be able to receive up to $75 a week in early childhood education tax credits from October this year - part of National’s election campaign promise to ease the cost of living.
Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau says a review of noise limits in the capital was never intended to allow mosques to broadcast the call to prayer from loudspeakers five times a day.
Chris Hipkins says he's not worried a capital gains tax implemented by a future Labour-led government might drive the wealthy offshore, because most other countries already have one.
Chris Finlayson, the former minister for Treaty negotiations under Sir John Key, said Act’s desire for a Treaty referendum would derail years of good faith bargaining and empower weirdos.
A young man who was meant to be celebrating his 21st birthday has been identified as one of the victims in the 100-person brawl in Gisborne that ended with two men dead.
A fisherman had his gear thrown off a jetty and was beaten and held underwater after a father and son confronted him with the belief he had tried to lure a child into his car with money.
Labour’s Chris Hipkins has accused National of creating its own financial crisis - while hitting out over a wave of “heartless and cruel” public sector job cuts.