A woman who assaulted an NZME journalist outside a courthouse has been sentenced to 18 months’ jail, but is expected to be released almost immediately because of time served while awaiting sentencing.

The Government has published targets and minimum levels to be achieved for charter schools. A charter school that doesn't achieve these minimum levels can have its registration cancelled, which is a ...

A majority of Gazans believe Hamas’ decision to launch the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was incorrect, according to a poll published on Tuesday pointing to a big drop in backing for the assault that ...

Defenders of the massive 20% rates increase in Wellington would have you believe this has nothing to do with decisions made by Councillors, but it was instead just due to the need to spend more on ...

There are calls from some Wellington businesses for the Government to follow the lead of one of the world’s biggest companies - Amazon - and order workers to stop working from home. It could be “the ...

There's been quite a lot of attention on the September 2024 Taxpayers' Union - Curia poll that showed a significant dip for Chris Hipkins as Preferred PM, and with his favourability. Now it is only ...

After the jury note in the Polkinghorne Trial was read out, I commented on Twitter it is hard to see a guilty verdict based on it. In fact the nature of the question was so easy to answer, that I ...

A project to replace a system that dishes out $12 billion of health payments every year is in trouble. Health NZ / Te Whatu Ora’s health sector agreements and payments system was rated three years ago ...

I wrote this post before the jury delivered a verdict, but after the conclusion of evidence. It will only be published after the verdict is announced (which was just announced as not guilty). Like ...

Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has confirmed she did not sell her car to pay the bills before he office clarified that, in fact, she did. So last week on radio she said she did sell her car to pay her ...

An interesting article in Nature about the impact of Nature endorsing Joe Biden in 2020. Overall, the study provides little evidence that the endorsement changed participants’ views of the candidates.

Mark Robinson is the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina and standing for Governor. His social media history has come to light, and wow does he have some doozies. Some extracts: Robinson has been ...