New Zealand's confusing Easter trading laws are proving a headache for shop owners.

A new family violence advocacy group say they have been inundated in their first month.

National's reform of the Resource Management Act is finally complete.

The Maori Party is claiming a major victory against GE trials in New Zealand.

RMA reforms will take NZ "down a racially divisive abyss", Winston Peters says.

Retail NZ wants to give police the power to issue spot-fines for shoplifters.

Uber is lobbying the NZ Govt to make further changes to transport reforms.

Linchpin legislation for the environment should be swapped for a new law, report finds.

Parliament's next environment watchdog will be a former National MP.

Parliament's debate on spying reforms took a light-hearted turn this week.

A key piece of National policy is hanging in the balance.

Overhaul of the child protection laws puts emphasis on placing children in a safe, loving home.

Legislation to overhaul how family violence is dealt with has been introduced.

There was 88kg of gold which passed from Rob Burgess to a gold dealer - enough evidence for police to take almost everything he owns.

There is an effort to overturn the decision to allow American television presenter Matt Lauer to buy the Hunter Valley Station.

A popular Stratford amusement park has shut its doors to work on a list of some 70 health and safety recommendations. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: Trained arbitrators can do more to ease work of Family Courts.

Napier will be open for business on Easter Sunday, a change decided by a close vote in a Napier City Council meeting yesterday. Councillors

A marketing manager left tetraplegic after falling awkwardly at home pleaded with doctors to switch off his ventilator machine.

Nearly 20 per cent of Russians say it is "acceptable" to hit one's partner.

The British Supreme Court has ruled that the UK government cannot trigger Brexit immediately. So what will Theresa May do next?

Donald Trump took steps to advance construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines.

Political Roundup: Should politicians be free to hop in and out of elected office when it suits their career interests?

COMMENT: Politicians should not be swayed by big business and their lobbyists. Govt needs to serve the interests of the many, not the few.

COMMENT: I'm glad we finally moved towards banning microbeads, it's been great for the nation to have this conversation, late or not.

Labour leader Andrew Little is proposing a new solution to recover bodies in the Pike River coal mine.

COMMENT: Amongst the many reasons for accepting legislation on equal wages is the fact that it is the right thing to do.

Auckland barrister and Green Party candidate Golriz Ghahraman is hoping to be the first refugee to become an MP in New Zealand.

COMMENT: Let's hope that this 150th year of Maori representation enables a robust dialogue to occur with all of us at the table with an equal voice.

Twenty-one seconds is all it took for Wendy Atkinson's 2-year-old to scale their regulation-standard pool fence.