Tauranga MP Simon Bridges has been named as the Leader of the House in a list of new appointments made today. Prime Minister Bill English today announced the appointment... Read More

Prime Minister Bill English opened the new EmployNZ training centre in Second Avenue on Friday afternoon, an official duty on a short trip to Tauranga that also... Read More

Maori own the water, all wealth needs to be taxed, and if you're rich, expect your superannuation to be cut. Those were some of the policies on offer at this afternoon's... Read More

Some of the health sector's lowest paid workers will share in a $2 billion pay equity settlement over five years. More than 55,000 workers in aged and disability... Read More

A serial election campaigner will contest the Tauranga seat in September's General Election to give voice to the 35 per cent of voters who don't exercise their... Read More

Concerns of dairy farmers about the way their industry was portrayed in TVNZ's Sunday programme 'The Price of Milk” have been made known to its producers... Read More

The Crown is breaching its Treaty of Waitangi obligations by failing to prioritise the reduction of the high rate of Maori reoffending, the Waitangi Tribunal announced... Read More

The government has classified the flooding in the Bay of Plenty caused by ex-Cyclone Debbie as a ‘medium-scale adverse event'. Social Development Minister... Read More

Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has launched a new plan for palliative care, calling it a priority for the government. Recent statistics predict a 51 per cent... Read More

'Moving overseas is not a way to hide from your student loan obligations.” That's the word from Revenue Minister Judith Collins, as more student loan defaulters... Read More

‘Cheap and cheerful rail' from Omokoroa and Papamoa into the Tauranga central city is a suggestion made by List MP Clayton Mitchell as a way to help unclog... Read More

Minister for Maori Development and Associate Minister for Economic Development Te Ururoa Flavell has praised recent initiatives by Waikato-Tainui that benefit its... Read More