Jane Patterson

The Labour MP David Clark has resigned as Health Minister.

But the Dunedin North MP said he will stay on in Parliament, and will stand again for his electorate seat come September.

RNZ's Political… Audio

Health Minister David Clark has resigned. RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson talks to Lynn Freeman from the Press Gallery. Audio

More than 30 Melbourne suburbs will go into a four-week lockdown tonight in an attempt to bring an outbreak of Covid-19 cases across the city back under control. Video, Audio

New Zealanders can travel to the European Union from tomorrow, when its external borders are reopened to people from select countries.

But the Government is warning anyone who takes up that… Audio

Elections are just around the corner - here's what you want to know but have been too embarrassed to ask. Audio

One headline called it an "enormous" recovery for the National Party, another said the Labour Party had been brought "back down to earth".

The latest 1 News Colmar Brunton poll shows gains and… Audio

The National Party leader, Todd Muller, says New Zealanders deserve to know how many people were allowed out of managed isolation early without being tested.

Two women tested positive after they had… Audio

The Health Minister says he relied on assurances from Ministry officials that routine testing of people in managed isolation and quarantine was taking place.

David Clark has been under fire this… Audio

There have been promises to do better but no apology from the Prime Minister for the latest bungle at the border.

The blame game is heating up after the revelation two women were allowed to leave… Audio

There're still conflicting views on what sisters who have Covid-19 did on their trip from Auckland to Wellington.

It's now emerged the two women did, as National MP Michael Woodhouse said, have… Audio

The government is facing a fierce backlash after the bungled quarantine of two returning New Zealand citizens - including calls for the Health Minister to resign.

The Prime Minister has announced she… Video, Audio

New Zealand First is flexing its muscles within the coalition, now publicly criticising some of the commercial rent measures its partner Labour had been pushing for - which it ended up blocking.

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Nationwide protests attended by hundreds of people here over the weekend have drawn political condemnation for flouting level 2 rules, but there's little appetite for prosecutions.

Deputy Prime… Audio

For a second day straight, National has found itself in controversy about colour - specifically, the colour white.

Tensions over race relations have boiled over again today with one senior National… Audio

National's ousted deputy leader, Paula Bennett, has somewhat unexpectedly thrown her support behind the party's new leadership team.

Leader Todd Muller and his deputy Nikki Kaye blundered their first… Audio