Not an especially good photograph taken at the Queenstown Writers Festival gala night. From left, Patrick Gower, Scoop, Jude Dobson, and Paul Goldsmith. Troll lurking in background at right is Act MP ...

Opinion: Hayden Thorne looks at where the key contests are playing out, what the polls say, and what’s at stake in the coming days.

If Auckland's going to live up to its promise, the Minister for Auckland role has to have some defined mandates and targets and be accountable for helping get things moving, writes Mark Thomas ...

With tensions high over the war in Gaza, NZ's top diplomat says his staff must be protected from online harassment.

Latinos are the largest minority in the United States and both sides are courting their vote in this year’s election– especially in crucial swing states. Political editor Laura Walters talks to Latino ...

I still think of Michael often. We first met at Grace’s thirty-first birthday party. I was sitting outside on the back deck when he came out through the sliding glass doors. He was pulling a pouch ...

$teve Mazzeo lives in all-important Maricopa County in Arizona, but he won't cast a deciding vote this election. Photo: Laura Walters Come next Tuesday, the world ...

Katherine Mansfield left New Zealand when she was 19 years old and died at the age of 34. In her short life she became our most famous short story writer, acquiring an international reputation for her ...

The mothballed Escarpment mine on the Denniston plateau, home to many of Bathurst's projects. Image: Neil Silverwood A retracted announcement by Bathurst Resources Limited shows the scale at which it ...

Every night before she falls asleep, Vicki Tohill hears the sickening crunch of her neck breaking. “It’s horrible, and I have no control of it,” she says. “But I jerk my head and go ‘No!’ then I fall ...

Our futures have been at least partly decided by global leaders and envoys at the second and crucial final week of COP16’s United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia. The conference concludes ...

Plants flown in from Auckland are unfurled on the Chatham Islands. Photo: Tāmata Hauhā It was quite the arrival. Early last month, the first jet aircraft landed to much fanfare at the Chatham Islands’ ...