The New Zealand government wants to ban social media for under 16s before the next election, but can they do it? Here’s what we know so far!

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Conspiratorial allegations swirled relentlessly about prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s partner Clarke Gayford. Facebook was riddled with them, and they were persistently discussed in pubs and ...

Just two months ago, the government’s tourism and hospitality minister Louise Upston said something that made my blood boil.

It took years for seatbelts to become accepted as life-saving devices and for drink driving to become socially unacceptable.

More than 70 years ago, Alex Salmon singlehandedly built a walking track in Tongariro National Park. Now, it might finally be ...

Dean Kimpton thought he was turning Auckland Transport around. Then his political bosses spent a week telling everyone how much it sucks.

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Balmoral residents insisted they were from Epsom, not grotty Mt Albert, and they spammed the Electoral Commission with complaints until it agreed. Critics of the government's 'bullying' of Auckland ...

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You can’t run or even walk and everything hurts and everyone is prodding your body and criticising it. "At least you’re not ...