Whanganui District Council is sticking to an average rates increase of 2.2 percent following deliberations on its draft Annual Plan. Mayor Andrew Tripe believes it's the lowest rise in the country for ...

I was pleased to see the Government announce the speed limit for Transmission Gully would be consulted on increasing to 110 km/hr. New motorways are built to safety standards where this is a safe ...

About half an hour into Auckland Council’s debate on upzoning the city centre last week, mayor Wayne Brown looked up with a puzzled look on his face. He didn’t get why planners were telling his ...

The Government is amending the Public Finance Act to prevent future governments concealing the extent of fiscal risks in government accounts, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The change is ...

I've just published on Patreon (paywalled) the May 2025 summary of the polls in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US. The Australian and Canadian Governments are having honeymoons for their ...

As powerless ratepayers face the ongoing tyranny of marxist councils over rates bills and the local government minister's repeated demands for sensible spending fall on deaf ears, the Prime Minister ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sent the case of an Ohio woman who contends that she was the victim of reverse discrimination back to the lower courts. In a unanimous ruling by Justice Ketanji Brown ...

I got sent this chart, and found it interesting. The high level of Maori offending is well known. What I hadn't known previously was the vast difference between Asian and Indian offending. Often these ...

Consider the economics of the restaurant industry. Alcohol offers higher profit margins than food as it requires less labour to prepare. Indeed, using official American data, your columnist estimates ...

Tomlinson, who is a former paramedic, had only been in Countdown for a few minutes when he heard yelling and screaming. Initially he thought it was children yelling or a domestic. A young man ran ...

Make America Healthy Again. The health trends listed are stark – and the needed solutions are clear (even if is going to be like doing an Aircraft Carrier doing a u-turn in the Suez Canal). In many of ...

The House has voted to suspend Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke for seven days, Rawiri Waititi for 21 days and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer for 21 days. The punishment was not for doing a haka. MPs can and do do ...