The Public Works Act is a necessary evil. In theory no one should ever be forced to sell their land against their will, but then we would never be able to construct essential infrastructure. So any ...

The Greens’ Tamatha Paul has expressed “regret” about a claim she made on social media that the “vast majority” of people in prison are there for non-violent offences that they’ve “had to do as a ...

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump stood in the House of Representatives and introduced DJ Daniel, a thirteen-year-old boy battling brain cancer who desperately wants to be a police officer. His local ...

Health New Zealand had been tracking its finances through a single Excel spreadsheet, a financial review of the public agency has revealed. An independent report by Deloitte, published on Health NZ’s ...

There is room for good impartial fact checking. But too often fact checkers either get it wrong or just nit pick and miss the woods for the trees. Here's a great example from AP which claims seven of ...

The Taxpayers' Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that spending on a National Ticketing System for buses has so far cost $146.4 million (of a $1.338 billion budget over 14 ...

Twyford, the Labour MP for Te Atatū, spoke against Destiny Church after the Pride events and called for the church to be removed from the charities register. Twyford said earlier that Police Minister ...

Critiques of Trump often receive a predictable response, regardless of the source. Critics are promptly diagnosed with so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome, a supposedly clinical condition that ...

Talking about the school’s previous lunch provider, Poole said: “We had a system that was working for us in our school, and now it’s not.” The school orders 310 lunches a day and about 150 are left ...

A reader inquired if the support lost by the major party of Government since the election is a record. I didn't think so, but have now gone and checked the data. This compares the 1st 1 News poll of ...

Article Three, which granted the rights and privileges of being British subjects, has been reinterpreted to be a promise that successive governments will ensure equality, the socialist dream.

He pulled the trigger five times in a daylight gang shooting in Rotorua and was responsible for a string of car break-ins and had ridden dangerously on a trail bike. But he isn’t going jail. And his ...