New Zealand First's Mahesh Bindra had his private member's bill drawn from the ballot last week. Simply asking for a Land Register

COMMENT: The deeper I delve into the issue, however, the more I am struck by just how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.

THE way the last couple of days have gone for the New Zealand Olympic team, sports fans without Sky may not be all that worried right

When 'alcohol meets ancestry' was the talk of social media last fortnight and it all stemmed from a little micro brewery in Auckland

I think one of the lowest things a person could do is steal from a charity. Under normal circumstances, I'd say nobody would dare

How flattering of Hillary Clinton to borrow fashion tips from Helen Clark while they both audition for top jobs. It was Prime Minister

Celebrating is something that transcends cultures, demographics and history. No matter when you were born, in what country and even

Online publication of more decisions from our courts has come at a good time, given a perplexing sentence in Auckland this week. The

IT'S amazing what has happened to Rotorua house values in the past year. Though many experts predicted provincial centres such as

Olympics The greatest sporting show on Earth will burst into life in Rio next weekend, with New Zealand predicted to enjoy its most

Turning 18 is a big deal in New Zealand. Once you're 18, you can drink, vote, smoke, buy scratchies, place bets at the TAB or use

They've been the best of times, surely, free of war and famine, well fed and medicated, never needing to bother about things that

No matter the circumstances, the loss of a young life is always a tragedy. Shargin Stephens, who died on Tuesday nearly two weeks

Correct me if I'm wrong but picking the school your children will attend is a relatively important decision for parents. That's why

Observation and knowledge of reality are topics that raise all sorts of prickly philosophical questions, chief among them the one

Have you ever walked past someone and said to yourself: "geez he looks familiar - in fact he looks just like me?" I remember watching

If a medical emergency played out before you, would you know what to do? For most of us, it would be a call to 111 - but what about

As a society we seem to be getting more and more lazy. Far-fetched as it may seem, it does make me wonder if one day we really could

It's hard in today's connected, catalogued world to go off grid and be intrepid. Unless you're prepared to go to some fairly extreme

It's a mind-blowing level of corruption, even for Russia. A report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency has revealed that

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg recently told the New York Times that if Donald Trump became President she would

Perhaps living at the bottom of the world has its advantages. Of course we're a long way from anywhere. You just can't get into a

To be honest, I don't know what all the fuss is about this Pokemon Go craze that is sweeping the world. For those of you who have

It's long been said that it takes a village to raise a child but if you read the updated 21st-century manual it seems that all it

We don't only get older, many get wiser as well. I thought so this week when in conversation with two gang members. One Mongrel Mob

This month we are celebrating 75 years of women being in the New Zealand Police. As a police reporter for this newspaper for more

It's alarming that a national charity that supports children in need says it is struggling to keep up with demand. The number of

Nothing changed at 8.01 on Saturday night other than my dreams got put on hold when the loot from Lotto went in three different directions

For many parents, the next two weeks will be met with a mix of relief and trepidation. School holidays bring that mix of feelings. First

We need to have a wee korero, Aotearoa. If you are reading this and don't know that korero means talk, then it's even more needed. It's