A new PM defied the odds as the Govt struggled to deal with the worst recession in decades, and Labour played catch up politics.

Unitec training first set up for Maori and Pasifika.

Speaker Lockwood Smith has dethroned Prime Minister as 2009's top parliamentary performer, a newsletter claims.

National MP Melissa Lee is reportedly under investigation over the way her television production company used taxpayer funds.

Police say they cannot rule out foul play over the disappearance of an overseas student a week ago.

A man who attacked a taxi driver and stole his taxi was tasered after assaulting two police officers.

A teacher aide at a leading Auckland school is charged with impersonating an undercover cop at a massage parlour.

A man is in custody after police received reports of a man with a gun at an address in Mt Albert this morning.