The 76-year-old was “part of the landscape”, seen most days fishing the inner Tauranga Harbour off Matua. He had just returned from a day wading along the flats when he collapsed at his Ōtūmoetai home ...

Luxon’s only two new announcements were of a new bureaucracy to be called Invest New Zealand and mergers of the Government’s existing science and research agencies.

The tourism portfolio has proven difficult for a succession of ministers. What was flying around the middle of the last ...

NZ Herald Business Editor-at-large, Liam Dann, told The Front Page that Treasury’s Half Year Economic Fiscal Update (Hyefu) showed the economy’s been in bad shape. “The Government isn’t taking enough ...

Karl Puschmann is Culture and entertainment writer for the New Zealand Herald. His fascination lies in finding out what drives and inspires creative people. But this week, there was no joking around ...

Test your brains with the Herald’s morning quiz. Share your score with friends, family, & colleagues, and find out who has the sharpest mind. Be sure to check back on nzherald.co.nz for today’s ...

Ahead of racing’s biggest party night of the year trainer Stephen Marsh sounds a little like a liquor salesman. “My advice to punters is get on the Bourbon train,” says Marsh, who actually wants to ...

Eden Park has welcomed Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s State of the Nation address, during which he took aim at council event rules limiting the number of concerts the Auckla ...

Despite a push for walking and public transport, more than half go by car - whether as passengers or behind the wheel themselves, Kirsty Wynn reports. There’s nothing 8-year-old Talia Barber would ...

Race 5, TAB Karaka Millions 3YO 1600m Lack of speed on paper, although Dealt With and Yaldi may inject some early tempo to cross from their gates, but unlikely they break any records after that.

The Turakina Highland Games, one of New Zealand’s oldest festivals of sport, music and dance, is set to hold its 160th event. On Saturday, January 25, it will mark 161 years since the Turakina ...

Greg Dixon’s Another Kind of Politics is a weekly, mostly satirical column on politics that appears on listener.co.nz on Friday mornings. And they’re off. After both major parties had caucus “retreats ...