Support for the Labour Party has fallen 5.5 points to 48 percent since July, according to the latest Roy Morgan poll.Support for National rose 2 points to 28.5 percent, with the wide 19.5 percentage point gap between the country's two major political parties now the narrowest...

Newly-minted National Party leader Judith Collins has named Shane Reti her new health spokesman and promoted him to the frontbench. He replaces Michael Woodhouse, under a cloud since it emerged last week that he’d received covid-19 patients’ private information from Michelle Boag...

Auckland Council received 34,800 submissions during a three-week consultation on its emergency budget.  That is the highest number of submissions received on a consultation since the city’s ‘super council’ was formed in 2010, eclipsing the 1,200 responses during the annual budget...