Following a legal battle between Hutt City Council and the Free Speech Union over the Council's censorship of inserts on Council sites, the parties have agreed to settle. The Council will make several ...

Increasing the number of electric vehicles in the fleet reduced the health harms from exhaust air pollution, but there were more injuries because people were driving more because of the cheaper cost ...

A cross-sector group of concerned citizens is urging the Government to reconsider its position on the proposed Gene Technology Bill. Thousands are calling for a complete halt as the agricultural ...

Women should be prosecuted for having sex with monks, Thai politicians have proposed, after a nationwide scandal over an alleged “blackmailing seductress”. At least nine monks have been disrobed for ...

Universities and legal experts say there is no need for a bill protecting free speech on campus. But the legislation's supporters say universities can't be trusted to uphold freedom of expression.

In 1972, Donella Meadows and a group of fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists used a then-powerful computer to generate a global systems model of human activity. Using decades of ...

Radio NZ have managed to do what feels like a dozen stories about something which is totally benign, but they are trying to manufacture as a conspiracy. All their articles push the lines that powerful ...

Curia recently did a poll in Christchurch. We asked four local questions: Do residents think Christchurch is going in the right or the wrong direction How they assess the performance of the Council Ho ...

The every useful Rates Report from NZTU shows how much rates have increased for each Council in the last three years, and the numbers are staggering. The 10 worst offenders are: West Coast Regional Co ...

I see our govt ( and msm) is still making a bigly deal of insisting on 2 state solution . We saw what the 2 state solution gave Israel on Oct 7. The political classes of those 20 odd countries , and ...

If employees wish to purchase extra annual leave, then it should be at the standard 2% per week. The Reserve Bank is effectively giving staff an extra two weeks annual leave than the rest of the ...

Canada has agreed to allow access for New Zealand dairy products following a long running trade dispute, Trade Minister Todd McClay says. Dairy exporters had been blocked from the Canadian market, ...