Wellington’s council has spent $22 million on outsourced advice on its town hall upgrade - $2m more than the original budget for the cursed project. Isn't this astonishing. The WCC has spent more mone ...

The Public Works Act is a necessary evil. In theory no one should ever be forced to sell their land against their will, but then we would never be able to construct essential infrastructure. So any ...

Substack blogger Emily Writes spoke to a source with a family member at a school who claimed the child opened their school lunch yesterday, "and a couple of flies came out". The media are so desperate ...

The Greens’ Tamatha Paul has expressed “regret” about a claim she made on social media that the “vast majority” of people in prison are there for non-violent offences that they’ve “had to do as a ...

Health New Zealand had been tracking its finances through a single Excel spreadsheet, a financial review of the public agency has revealed. An independent report by Deloitte, published on Health NZ’s ...

On Tuesday night, Donald Trump stood in the House of Representatives and introduced DJ Daniel, a thirteen-year-old boy battling brain cancer who desperately wants to be a police officer. His local ...

The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that spending on a National Ticketing System for buses has so far cost $146.4 million (of a $1.338 billion budget over 14 ...

There is room for good impartial fact checking. But too often fact checkers either get it wrong or just nit pick and miss the woods for the trees. Here's a great example from AP which claims seven of ...

These UK poll results from Matt Goodwin are disturbing. The number of adults who would refuse to fight for their country has more than doubled in 20 years from 19% to 41%. In one sense it is no ...

A reader inquired if the support lost by the major party of Government since the election is a record. I didn't think so, but have now gone and checked the data. This compares the 1st 1 News poll of ...

Critiques of Trump often receive a predictable response, regardless of the source. Critics are promptly diagnosed with so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome, a supposedly clinical condition that ...