Mike Houlahan

Education is always a significant election issue, perhaps more so in 2020 as people laid off due to Covid-19 consider retraining. Political reporter Mike Houlahan considers the main party’s policies.

Covid-19 has been an economic as well as a health disaster. Mike Houlahan examines the political parties’ plans to restore jobs and financial wellbeing to New Zealand.

Covid-19 is the dominant health issue at the moment, but there are much wider issues in the health sector for our political parties to debate. Mike Houlahan reports.

The 2020 election will almost certainly go down in history as the "Covid-19 election". Mike Houlahan looks at the differing approaches the main political parties would take to managing the pandemic...

Although under MMP it is, generally, really only the party vote that matters, that does not mean that parties do not want to win electorate seats.

The Southern District Health Board spent $9million in five months combatting Covid-19.

Substantial work needs to be urgently done to improve the readiness of southern aged residential care facilities for an outbreak of Covid-19, a new report says.

Queenstown is right in the middle of one of the safest National electorates in the country, and few political leaders find their way there during campaign season.

A man with an enormous, and enormously expensive, addiction to methamphetamine, will continue his rehabilitation behind bars after being sentenced on a wide variety of charges yesterday.

Shayne Carter has been called many things in his life, but laureate is a new one.

National launched its election campaign in virtual mode yesterday but with a concrete promise for Dunedin.

It is not easy competing with the other entertainment attractions a weekend offers, but Act New Zealand leader David Seymour said he was happy with the attendance, given Covid-19 restrictions, at a...

A new week, another Monday spent waiting for the announcement on whether the South will return to Covid-19 Alert Level 1.