Porirua locals are voting on a potential mega-council merger, and, bucking the national trend, picking a mayor from an all-female lineup.

Once water reform is out of the way, all eyes will turn to the complex, expensive quagmire of the council's social housing.

A Christchurch man is taking Kāinga Ora to the tenancy tribunal over a bedroom-based discrepancy that has seen him evicted from his home of 13 years.

There’s a serious risk that renters will be paying higher and higher bills to run older, crappier tech while owners reap the benefits of a cheap, electrified future. We risk entrenching a two-tier ...

New Zealander Ashley (Ash) Stanley-Ryan is a PhD candidate in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He teaches international law and has advised both states and international ...

Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.

It’s the event that stops the nation – no, not local body elections or an All Blacks test, Bird of the Year. The competition invites voters to settle the pecking order in the name of conservation.

As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff ...

Role: Volunteer (Justice of the Peace). Salary/income/assets: Enough with some leftover. Rent/mortgage per week: $300 for an investment property currently losing money on Airbnb. Own home is paid off.

For a long time the Black Ferns' immense talent has papered over shortcomings in how we run the women's game. But talent alone is no longer enough.

A Swedish strategy game has rebranded the Tūhoe sovereignty flag as a communist emblem – a misstep that erases history, but also opens the door to telling it properly.

But where the personal website lives on is in local elections, where candidates suddenly think that it might be a good idea to have their own domain name. The Spinoff has been spending far too much ...