A really fascinating article by Erika Aliarez who went viral over footage of her at a ballpark game returning to her seat with a baby strapped to her chest and her hands full of ballpark food. She was ...

As we draw closer to the 2026 US Congressional mid-term elections (where all US House of Representatives and 1/3 of Senators are up for re-election along with Statewide races but NOT the US President) ...

Anyone fortunate enough to own a Pak’N’Save or a New World has an annual income measured in millions. The business model is relatively low margin (4% after tax) plus rebates (maybe 2% or so) for a tot ...

When outgoing RNZ Chief Executive Paul Thompson addressed the Select Committee hearing on the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill in February 2024, he began his submission with a remark about how timely ...

My ears pricked up a week back when ZB reported on recently released 2025/2026 suicide stats. Like many NZers, people taking their own lives has had an impact on me. My birth father took his own life ...

The previous Labour Government abolished almost all the health targets, did a distarous mega-merger during a pandemic, and outcomes in the health sector fell across the board. The health sector is ...

The oldest bureaucratic trick in the world when an agency or council is asked to find savings, is for them to announce they will cut the most popular and liked programs, rather than the much larger ...

To revive our fish stocks and marine habitats, this bottom line calls for an immediate end to bottom trawling in our most damaged inshore area ...

Tauranga City Council chief executive Marty Grenfell has resigned after councillors held an emergency closed-door meeting this afternoon over the Davison report. The council-commissioned review into ...

This came to mind recently when EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen got cosy with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at her 2026 state of the union address over Canada becoming an “associate ...

I have now profiled 62 of the 71 seats being contested, and made predictions for 60 of them. Just nine seats to go. So I have 36 seats so far as safe, 11 which are likely for a party, 13 which lean ...

Christchurch City Council staff are confident rate increases can be held to 6%, 5% and 4% over the next three years without cutting services or staff. But they warned councillors the tighter financial ...