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Should we be worried about the election campaign going negative? Or is the greater worry party leaders who can't get their facts straight? Video, Audio

Scrapper tells the story of 12-year-old Georgie who's quite happy fending for herself, until the unexpected appearance of someone claiming to be her father. Stars Harris Dickinson (Triangle of… Video, Audio

National will ditch the clean car subsidy for Electric Vehicles if it's in govenrment saying people who can afford a brand new electric car dont need a subsidy from taxpayers to buy it. But it is… Video, Audio

The chair of an Otago local board is refusing to explain his racist comments towards a staffer at a local pub. Strath-Taieri board chair, Barry Williams, has been censured by Dunedin City Council for… Video, Audio

Labour's leader will have a word with some of his MPs after they were caught making incorrect statements about what National and ACT have planned after the election. National says it shows the party… Audio

Journalist Karen Pinchin looks at the science and politics of ocean-travelling tuna and the humans trying to save the species from extinction in her new book, Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna… Audio

Labour has just announced its plan to supercharge New Zealand's economy if re-elected.

Among its promises is a hundred-million-dollar cash injection for agricultural technology and expanding trade… Audio

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn with an update on Qantas, which has been facing criticism of its sky-high profits and half billion kept in flight credits. Now its CEO Alan Joyce… Audio

The race for the huge east coast electorate - Ikaroa-Rāwhiti - is wide open, after Meka Whaitiri's shock defection to Te Paati Maori.

Ms Whaitiri has held the seat for the last decade but may have… Audio

They've been crying foul over attack ads, but now the National Party are being accused of being hypocrites.

The Labour Party leader, Chris Hipkins, unveiled a long list of ads he and his MPs have… Audio

National has accused Labour of treating businesses like children, while Chris Hipkins says he's going into the campaign as "one of the greater fiscal conservatives".

Party leaders have told business… Audio

Staying with climate emissions. National says it's committing to "net zero by 2050" - even though scientists are urging governments to get into action and set climate targets for the next ten years… Audio

New Zealand's new Poseidon P-8A has clocked its first official mission: a multi-national operation north-west of Fiji to catch illegal fishing boats. Audio

Politicians are ramping up their campaigns after the major launches at the weekend, mixing and mingling with school children and waving signs at motorists around Wellington's Basin Reserve. While… Audio

The head of Wairarapa Hospital's Emergency Department Dr Norman Gray says it wasnt a hard decision to walk off the job. He says there's years of pent up frustration and concerns people are dying… Video, Audio

Ikaroa-Rāwhiti is shaping up to be one of the tightest races this election. We speak to its two leading candidates, Cushla Tangaere-Manuel (Labour) and Meka Whaitiri (Te Pāti Māori). Video, Audio

The ACT Party has announced it will prioritise productivity over everything else, if elected.

ACT leader David Seymour has unveiled a policy that would set a target for New Zealand to be one of the… Audio

A gut cancer patient paying more than $100,000 for treatment wants Pharmac to fund the drugs that are keeping her alive. 

And she's not alone - gut cancers are one of the most common form of cancer… Audio

Vanuatu's parliament has elected Sato Kilman Prime Minister for the a record fifth time bringing to an end Alatoi Ishamel Kalsakau's nine-month reign as the leader of the government.

The vote came… Audio

The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has launched a highly-visible campaign which highlights - in its words - why the country will be worse off under a Christopher Luxon-led National government.

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Public agencies have been locking in hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts for big IT upgrades even as the government pledges to cut contractor spending.

The big winners so far are US tech… Audio

The head of Waikato University was intimately involved in National's policy of establishing a medical school at the university and told one of its senior MPs it could be a "present" to a National… Audio

Campaigning for this year's election has only just begun and already accusations are flying over attack ads.

The National Party has dubbed ads targeting leader Chris Luxon, and funded by the Council… Audio

National is facing heat from another angle after the Council of Trade Unions launched a highly visible advertising campaign explaining - in its words - why the country will be worse off under a… Audio

National's proposed foreign buyers tax continues to raise all kinds of questions - whether it will raise the promised $740 million a year and if the country could face legal problems with its trading… Audio

The National Party says its approach to cyclone and flood recovery will be faster and fairer than Labour's, saying it plans to cut regulations and set up a new ombudsman to deal with issues arising… Audio

National is crying foul over a new union attack ad which labels its leader Christopher Luxon risky and out of touch. The party says the personal attack marks a new low in this year's election… Audio