In an interview with Q+A's Jack Tame on Sunday, Associate Education Minister David Seymour has accused critics of the government's revamped school lunch programme of "nitpicking".
Originally intended to be in place for just four years, the exhibition featuring ultra-realistic figures of seven World War I servicemen and a nurse 2.4 times their life-size, had already been extended twice since its 2015 opening.
After a childhood filled with violence and facing jail at 16, a finalist for the KiwiBank Young New Zealander of the Year credits farming, family and forgiveness for allowing him to change his life.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has attended a virtual summit along with other world leaders to discuss the potential deployment of peacekeepers in Ukraine.
A tourist has managed to get a refund on a rental car hire after she crashed five minutes after leaving the hire depot while driving on the wrong side of the road.
KiwiRail failed to follow a decade-old Coroner's recommendation to fence off an area of railway line where a young Matamata College student was killed by a train this week.
A prolific sexual predator, who attacked and violated vulnerable and sometimes unconscious woman for a decade, will remain behind bars for at least the next ten years.