The Latest Breaking News from Chris Hipkins

Schools shut down and bus services are curtailed as Hopkins urges citizens to take warning seriously

A West Papuan separatist group is demanding Australia and New Zealand sever military ties with Indonesia after kidnapping a New Zealand pilot on Tuesday.

Prime minister Chris Hipkins has said his government will refocus on economic issues, after dropping laws put forward after terror attack

When the rubber hits the road, Chris Hipkins has shown he'd rather keep petrol cheap and carbon intensive than fight climate change, says Marc Daalder

Why the Government killed off plans for a new safety net - and what could come next to support Kiwis made redundant and those too sick to work.

Indonesian security forces are searching for a pilot from New Zealand who was taken hostage by separatist rebels in restive Papua province

Hate speech, biofuels, the media merger and social insurance have been dumped in the worthy, but not important bin, after Chris Hipkins takes the axe to his predecessor's policies.

New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he is axing or delaying many of his government’s more contentious policy plans as he looks to refocus on priorities like the rising cost of living

As prime minister, Chris Hipkins is cutting back on policy initiatives, but doing so leaves space in the public debate for other parties to fill

JAKARTA: Separatists in Indonesia's breakaway eastern region of Papua have taken a New Zealand pilot hostage after attacking a small passenger plane and setting it on fire at an airport in a remote mountainous area, officials and a rebel group said.

As New Zealand’s new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins embarks on reprioritising policies to focus on “bread and butter issues”, the details of the contentious Three Waters reforms remain unclear.