The Independent Electoral Review's recommendations followed the theme of enhancing access to democracy under the principles of the Bill of Rights.
Alongside regional defence and security, climate change will be a key topic at bilateral meetings on this visit.
Five eligible applications totalling $105,025 were made to the $20,000 fund. The committee voted to split the fund equally into $4000 grants.
Ukraine's president has extended an invitation to the prime minister to meet ahead of NATO's summit next month.
Former Canterbury head coach and Crusaders assistant gets the nod to succeed All Blacks-bound Robertson.
The NZ First leader said he was against the findings as "it doesn't make sense".
National says it's a "conflict of interest" and a breach of the minister's obligations.
The offenders only took two vapes from the Colombo St store before being found in Ashburton and taken into custody.
The capital's cycleways have been recognised by the Bloomberg Initiative for Cycling Infrastructure.
The three-year-old pup has a tongue measuring 12.7cm in length.
It follows a report recommending lowering the voting age, as well allowing all prisoners to vote.
The failure to immediately declare the shares has been described as a conflict of interest.
Folbigg was pardoned yesterday over the deaths of her four children 20 years ago.
Crusaders midfielder David Havili is out of the Super Rugby playoffs but is still hopeful of featuring in next month's Rugby Championship.
“We are seeing cases where everyday New Zealanders have lost their entire life savings to this scam, in some cases upwards of $10,000," the government department said.
It follows allegations of a conflict of interest by not immediately declaring shares in Auckland Airport.
Police were called to the incident in Aokautere on SH57 at about 11.45am today.
Hipkins rejected the idea his leadership was lacking.
The numbers cover Monday, May 29 to Sunday, June 4.
Linda Woods, 71, died in an incident at her Taraire St home on Thursday.
It's part of a range of other methods to reduce youth vaping.
The youths - aged 14, 15 and 16 - face a "variety" of charges, police say.
The shocking incident took place in a Tamworth supermarket in Australia, and saw people scrapping in the aisles.
The outside back and veteran lock Brodie Retallick admit to extra motivation in quarter-final against the only team to beat them in regular season.
"This change is estimated to lift as many as 14,000 children out of poverty," Carmel Sepuloni says.
Routine testing of sawdust at the Tāhunanui Back Beach area has uncovered contaminated material.
Daisy the shark's tag is ultra special, being used as part of a major research project into sharks in the region.
He's earned high praise from his coach and maybe even locking the number 1 jumper for the foreseeable future.
This year, police had seized 428kgs of powder/crystal and 1.3 litres of liquid meth by March 31.
Aerial footage showed rescuers had their work cut out for them.
A Killer Beez member was among the arrests and one of the seized vehicles had King Cobra links, police said.
MetOcean's Brett Beamsley compared the recent monster waves to "moving office blocks".
After Cyclone Gabrielle took out a vital bridge on Sally Officer's path to Gisborne Hospital, she decided to improvise.
A taser and a stolen $60,000 Mitsubishi were also found by police executing the search warrants.
