Whakatāne mayor Victor Luca has been scrutinising data on public and private healthcare for years and calls it privatisation ...

Inspired by a dictionary’s survey of its online followers, The Detail gathers three professional word-workers to nominate the best and worst of language and the traps of faux erudition, cliche, neuron ...

Kataraina by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, $37), the sequel to her celebrated modern classic debut novel Auē, available in ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a meeting with the Security Cabinet after Iran's missile attacks on Israel in West Jerusalem on October 1. Photo: Getty Images Expert opinion from ...

David Seymour attended Kiingi Tuheitia's tangi just over two weeks after he missed the Koroneihana events. Photo: Supplied An email from the Prime Minister’s chief of staff to David Seymour’s chief of ...

Becky Manawatu, photographed in September 2024 by Yvette Robinson. There is a really great conventional novel inside Becky Manawatu’s new novel Kataraina, conventional as in something anyone can read ...

Former Dutch chief of defence Tom Middendorp says his eyes were opened to the link between climate change and security during his time in Afghanistan. Photo: Getty Images As a senior military officer ...

New Zealand exporters may have a bit more time to comply with new European Union rules. File photo: Lynn Grieveson Business news in association with The European Union may extend a deadline for ...

Consultant anesthetist Claire Ireland says she was was shocked and appalled by the ministerial announcement. Photo: David Williams Regular leaks in Dunedin Hospital’s operating theatres are bad enough ...

New employment data this week will show that younger people are bearing the brunt of a weaker job market as employers favour experienced workers. Stats NZ will publish the latest monthly employment ...

'To the more than 35,000 people who protested in Dunedin last Saturday, it simply looked like the cancer drugs saga all over again – a promise made in the heat of an election campaign that the ...