Newly released emails show Wellington mayor Andrew Little’s chief of staff labelled the $41 million new office fit-out “inappropriate” for democracy and bemoaned that future mayors were stuck with it for a quarter of a century. The...
New Zealand’s annual celebration of Gallic cinema is returning. The 2026 edition of the French Film Festival Aotearoa will unspool in more than 20 towns and cities for four weeks from next Wednesday. Festival director Fergus Grady says...
Opposition parties have resoundingly rejected the Government’s claims that social housing reforms would create a fairer system, saying they will hurt – not help – the most vulnerable. Social housing tenants will pay higher rents from...
The associate finance ministers from ACT and NZ First are bringing very different things to next week’s Budget, with one giving up on new cuts and the other having fiery conversations with the prime minister over the need to support...
