A week ago, Wellington was tracking significantly higher than previous years, but it’s now on a par with 2022: 30.4%. On the upside, turnout looks set to beat 2019’s record-low final turnout of just ...

On one side, the country’s largest and most well-funded breweries. On the other, a guy called Daryl with some barrels.

With eyes set firmly on a role in government next year, Te Pāti Māori has promised that a series of “small adjustments”, upcoming policy announcements and a promise to work better together will pave ...

Gender attitudes might be sliding backwards, but ladies’ names increasingly adorn buildings around New Zealand.

A week ago, there were reports of voter turnout being “significantly up” on 2022. This appears to have been overly optimistic: the voting period was increased from the 22 days of the last election to ...

The 2025 local elections are set to return one of the worst (if not the worst) turnouts in history, with Auckland currently tracking at a dismal 23.1%. Those numbers suggest a widespread sense of ...

As researcher Jeffrey O’Neill notes in The Conversation, 77% of those who skipped the 2022 local elections did vote in the 2020 general election, suggesting disengagement isn’t the issue. Instead, ...

This is why Counting The Beat feels so current and timely: it tells us that 52% of New Zealanders are eating differently because of increasing costs, and that the country had one of the biggest ...

Nelson is rapidly losing its regional economic crown to the Tasman District. Is the city's longest-serving politician the man who can take it forward?

Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets ...

Farrowing crates were set to be banned from the end of this year, but the government has pushed the changes back a whole decade.

In an election where all most people want to talk about is bringing down rates, one candidate has had to compromise with her past self.