Israelis kill more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza protests, health officials say. Source: Youtube / @The White House

Cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis continues to spread through New Zealand with a farm in Cambridge the latest to test positive.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses the China Business Summit 2018. / Michael Craig

Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, talks about the budget focus.

Budget 2018: Foreign Minister Winston Peters secures $900 million for more diplomats, aid.

Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran releases information on RNZ saga.

Ardern met with the US Presidential candidate this morning in Auckland, where they had breakfast and exchanged gifts.

The Government will set up an on-going forum with Business New Zealand and the Council of Trade Unions to Work on policy development in the face of Work-related changes.

PM Jacinda Ardern speaks to the media regarding Clarke Gayford rumours.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern held her first press conference this afternoon since returning from Europe.

PM Jacinda Ardern on her meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will also meet Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tonight followed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin tomorrow.

Prime Minister blaming the previous government for underfunding core-service such as health and education, and is asked if the health system is in crisis.

Jacinda Ardern has said the case of Middlemore Hospital buildings "rotting around the patients" showed the urgency of the work needed.

The Northcote by-election will be on Saturday 9 June, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced.

Parliament will pass a law allowing the convictions of men for homosexual offences to be removed from the public record.

Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran denying she instructed RNZ chairman Richard Griffin not to attend Thursday's Economic Development select committee hearing. / Video by Mark Mitchell

Ardern fields questions over Government's response to leaky buildings at Middlemore Hospital and the escalation of the 'trade wars' after China retaliated to US tariffs on steel and aluminium.

NZ First leader Winston Peters comments on Jenny Marcroft's conversation with Mark Mitchell. / Mark Mitchell

Hirschfeld had claimed it was coincidental and they bumped into each other at the cafe in Wellington. The truth emerged that it was arranged and had been in Curran's diary all along.

Hundreds of people are standing outside access points to TSB Bank Arena to stop delegates getting in.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she knows nurses and the public will want the Government to explore any options possible to try to prevent industrial action by nurses.

Coleman announced today that he is stepping down from politics to take up a new role in the private sector as CEO of Acurity Health Group.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given the strongest signal yet that the days of oil and gas exploration in New Zealand are numbered.

The Government will repeal the "year and a day" law that was used as one of the reasons why police chose not to prosecute anyone over the collapse of the CTV building, which killed 115 people in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

Obama has been brought to New Zealand by the NZ-US Council to promote the relationship between the two countries which was icy for many years over New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy.

Focus: The Labour Party is suspending all Young Labour events in the wake of a police investigation into sexually assaults at the Waihi summer camp.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says ministers are working to get an exemption for New Zealand from the US' imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminium.

Palmerston North Mayor's mid-term report. Made with funding from NZ On Air.