Stories by Lillian Hanly

Youth advocates are worried tighter rules for emergency housing could lead to someone dying due to the impacts on mental health and physical safety for those denied shelter.

It's been a long year in politics - James Shaw was still leading the Greens in February - remember that?

Christopher Luxon said he had received "a number of invitations" to Waitangi Day commemorations but hasn't yet decided his schedule.

Verrall's comments were made under Parliamentary privilege, and she has not been prepared to repeat those claims since.

Police have started recording the number of young people ordered into custody, but the Police Association says "any number" of nights in custody is "too high".

The coalition wants to divide NZ along ethnic and economic lines, Chris Hipkins says, and he wants to be the leader who brings it together. Video, Audio

The former Labour minister has returned to Labour after taking a year off, but says it's not her "intention" to run again.

But the party is also focussed on jobs, healthcare and education, he says.

Speaking at the Labour Party annual conference, Willie Jackson criticised the coalition leaders for their respective roles in the Treaty Principles Bill.

New Zealanders have lost faith in Labour, and "we need to reconnect with a much broader range of Kiwis", the party leader says.

Analysis: The party is meeting in Christchurch this weekend to begin paving its path to the 2026 campaign.

The ACT leader's position on the South Island shows his bill is "unworkable", says a legal expert.

Labour has accused National of ignoring the evidence. Audio

Mental well-being has been removed as a standalone priority in the government's latest Child and Youth Well-being Strategy - despite officials warning against this earlier in the year.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather at Parliament today as the final leg of the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti reaches its last destination - but organisers and participants are saying it will not…

Te Pāti Māori's extraordinary display of protest interrupted the first vote on the Treaty Principles Bill.

Members of the King's Counsel say the coalition's Treaty Principles Bill "seeks to rewrite the Treaty itself" and would have the "opposite effect of its stated purpose". Audio

The trial will be for single people and couples without children who aren't already getting housing help and have been in emergency housing for more a year.

Survivors of abuse in care described today's formal apology as "a PR stunt" questioning whether it was authentic. Audio

A Bill that aims to restore citizenship to a group of Samoans born between 1924 and 1949 is set to pass its second reading later this morning, with all parties saying they will vote it through. Audio

The Associate Justice Minister is defending the coalition government's new 'three strikes' law, saying if violent criminals are "locked up in prison" they will not be in communities "creating harm and… Audio

The government is being accused of copy and pasting Uber's position on contractors - and adopting it as official policy.

Earlier this year, providers of programmes for children were given little notice their funding would be reduced or discontinued.

The government has told the Electricity Authority to get more competitive as it tries to curb soaring electricity prices of late.

The government's trial of heated tobacco products as a smoking cessation tool is in "tatters", public health experts say.