Nick James

Wellington mayor Andrew Little is unsurprised by news the capital's two major roading projects have no definite start date.

In the hours following the announcement of the alliance earlier this week, China launched a missile test with a dummy warhead on it.

ANALYSIS: Transport Minister Chris Bishop's “major transport” announcement on Thursday has been a long time coming.

The Cambridge-Piarere expressway extension is one of just six of the Government's Roads of National Significance to have definite plans to start construction.

Luke Haines first flew onto my radar when I was in my early twenties, with the debut album New Wave by The Auteurs.

The Beehive is leaking, has window glazing defects and a corroded pipe network which could cause “major water damage”, officials say.

There's no footage from a camera on board a commercial fishing boat that accidentally killed an orca, due to a technical failure at the time.

Watch the live stream of the announcement above at 11am The ACT Party is set to make a major announcement this morning in Auckland, which it has said would be election-related but not a policy.

He said he resigned from the TVNZ board this morning, and told the TVNZ chairman 20 minutes before the press conference.

Treasury has flagged “major risks” with both the Lower Hutt Melling Interchange upgrade and Resource Management reform in an independent review of the projects.