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The Department of Internal Affairs has come out hard on free-to-play gambling ads.

MediaRoom: People holding the title 'editor' in the senior ranks of one of our big media firms appear to be an endangered species in business restructuring. By Tim Murphy

There are no nationally mandated criteria for assessing whether new teachers are ready to teach and the result is an unreliable and inconsistent assessment process, argues Michael Johnston

There’s a housing crisis in Queenstown, yet 27 percent of the stock is sitting empty most of the year. Political editor Jo Moir visited the tourism hotspot to investigate what’s going on.

This is what New Zealand has come to – a land of phenomenal wealth for a few, in which an alarmingly large proportion of our population is homeless, and kept warm with repurposed chip bags, writes Diane Brand

A new poll has Labour well short of being able to form a government and confirms the news Chris Hipkins didn’t need, that National is in arm’s reach of 40 percent

It was high-vis and head wraps for Christopher Luxon this morning as he visited South Auckland to plead National’s case

Visually, it was the opposite of your average political debate or community meeting in New Zealand. Nary a grey hair in sight. Teens, students and young workers showed their political colours by putting parliamentary hopefuls through their paces on the issues that matter to them.

Big banks' deep pockets allow them to tilt the playing field with mortgage broker incentives and home loan cashbacks, says Heartland chief executive. Jonathan Milne reports.

Labour gives a glimpse of grit in the face of a horror poll

Armed Offenders Squad leader Vitale Lafaele writes about a rapist who was granted bail, and who then killed a second victim