Auckland is falling off the pace in its natural tendency to produce disproportionately more economic output than the rest of the country.

Labour MP Trevor Mallard is the latest victim of notorious electronic bollards at Parliament.

Stress tests show it would take an extraordinary series of events for New Zealand's banks to fail, Rob O'Neill reports.

The Government's state housing agency is set to run out of money by February, ministers have been warned.

Official documents have revealed for the first time what contributed to the convention centre deal between the Government and Plenary Conventions NZ.

Gerry Brownlee was scathing of the Treasury analysis, in spite of the improved report, saying it was done by people who "fluff about the place pontificating".

Convictions in Rotorua for cannabis possession have fallen more than 66 per cent in the last six years - adding fuel to nationwide

The business case for the proposed national bowel screening programme was "poorly developed" according to a Treasury email.

A pre-Budget report released by the Treasury today shows that the target for social housing places has been cut from 65,000 to 64,100, apparently for fiscal reasons.

Treasury secretary says he's seen no evidence that the policy framework between Reserve Bank and Finance Minister needs to be "radically different."

Finance Minister Bill English says it will be a challenge to maintain and grow surpluses.

Migrant arrivals climbed 15 percent to 115,700 in the year, while departures fell 8.1 percent to 57,400.

Joyce this week got cabinet approval to develop what he calls "the New Zealand Investment Attraction Strategy".

The Government has reported an unexpected operating surplus in the 10 months through April as the Crown's tax coffers were bolstered by a bigger inflows.

A spend of more than $360,000 on pay television subscriptions by Government departments has been criticised by Labour.

The Government has released its financial position ahead of next week's budget.

A new coin is being minted in New Zealand to commemorate the birth of the royal princess.

PM’s regular ‘disappointment’ with racheting salaries hits crunch time, John Armstrong writes.

It is too easy for the leader of a ruling party to agree and dispense with independent, careful and sensible criteria for setting their remuneration.

The four years since the Christchurch earthquake is more than enough time for a discussion about New Zealand's system of disaster insurance.

The Government's operating deficit was smaller than expected in the first five months of the financial year as a clampdown on expenditure managed to offset a shortfall in the tax-take from last....

Dairy farmers and the Treasury will be looking to 2015 and beyond with some trepidation after a 52 per cent decline in wholemilk powder prices over the past 12 months.

Can Bill English continue to keep all of National's fiscal balls in the air? And for how long before he drops one?

The Treasury delivered a cheerful set of economic forecasts in its half-year update yesterday, revising up its forecasts for the next two years.

The Government's widely touted return to surplus is likely to take a further 12 months and is largely reliant on cuts to spending.

Opposition parties say new Treasury forecasts that the Crown's books will not return to surplus this year as promised by the Government are an embarrassment.

The Treasury is looking to "crowd source" policy ideas about how to improve the effectiveness of welfare spending.