The British and Irish Lions team to tour NZ next year will potentially be the finest side representing the four Home Unions to travel to our shores.

A stoush over "land banking" developers is brewing in Britain - and local authorities in New Zealand may well be interested observers in the result.

Among his many duties, Foreign Minister Murray McCully gets to rub shoulders with some fairly noxious individuals.

The Government's latest move to crack down on dangerous dogs is commendable and some will say well over due.

Doctors at Waikato Hospital have raised disturbing allegations about the way the district health board makes its decisions.

In the world according to Donald Trump the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead.

A survey which revealed access problems to the child disability allowance has raised more questions than answers.

The consensus view of the nation's economists is that New Zealand is well placed to take the rebuild costs from last week's quake in its stride.

The contours of Donald Trump's White House administration are emerging.

It is a year since terrorists launched co-ordinated attacks in Paris and slaughtered 130 innocent people.

Once again the worst of circumstances brings out the best in New Zealanders.

Emergency housing funding marks the Government's acceptance that it must ensure every New Zealander has adequate shelter.

New Zealand experienced something last weekend even more rare than an All Black defeat. It was a defeat accepted with good grace.

The proper response when someone is terminally ill is to offer support and comfort.

After 240 years since independence, and in light of the man who craves the job, Clinton would be deserving as the first woman in the White House.

The Labour Party is by no means alone in worrying what to do about 74,000 young people who are in neither employment, education or training.

It is unbelievable that a difficult child could be locked in a tiny cell at any New Zealand school nowadays.

How much better, for them and everyone who enjoys fireworks, if it marked an event with meaning in New Zealand.

The email story has been the most conventional element of this most unconventional campaign.

Labour's pledge to invest $680 million in a light rail system has rightly been labelled "pork barrel" politics by Steven Joyce.

It will be a sad day if New Zealand decides to charge for access to tracks in its national parks.

The police tactic of gathering details of individuals by setting up a drink-drive checkpoint would seem to stray from the powers granted to police under the Land Transport Act.

For a day this week, Paula Bennett was PM. How she tackles two new roles in Cabinet will define her chances of one day taking up that job permanently.

It is galling to realise so many former MPs are still claiming up to 90% of the cost of air travel for themselves and their spouse from taxpayers.

EDITORIAL: The public have a right to ask what is going on at Whenuapai if a mission such as this one cannot be executed successfully.

Trump is giving Putin dangerous encouragement and the rest of the world can only hope it will end with the election.

The idea of a downtown sports stadium for Auckland will not go away. New mayor Phil Goff has wasted no time reviving the idea.

The chance to set a record for successive test victories has been within the All Blacks' grasp before.

Just when it seems Donald Trump could not go lower in his quest for the US Presidency, he does.

A short statement issued by the Prime Minister on Wednesday marked the end of an era in New Zealand's defence and foreign relations.