The Latest Breaking News from NZ

As the strategic rivalry between the United States and China intensifies, the invitation to discuss participation in the AUKUS security agreement presents New Zealand with a potentially momentous decision: how best to secure its own strategic interests and values in the Indo-Pacific region.

The new "Plan Anzac" cooperation agreement will allow both armies to share operational intelligence and technology as New Zealand's new PM prepares to meet Anthony Albanese in Australia.

Western Force were gallant in their three defeats on their NZ road trip but need to start picking up wins when they take on the NSW Waratahs on Saturday night.

There are new voices in the commentary box for NZ's top basketball leagues this season, including Tall Fern Tessa Boagni and rugby presenter Taylah Johnson -  who are also expecting baby boys at the same time, Merryn Anderson discovers.

Given the huge importance of the oceans to our wellbeing, we need to urgently elevate oceans in our national discourse and political processes, says Rod Oram

Another day, another Three Waters announcement. A generation on from the Mangawhai fiasco, NZ is dithering over fixes to rundown drinking water and wastewater plants and pipes – everybody wants control, nobody wants the bill. But one way or the other, we'll all pay.

Jacinda Ardern's water infrastructure reforms are the latest policy to be axed by her successor as New Zealand prime minister, Chris Hipkins.

Royal Commission into Abuse in Care inquiry chair Coral Shaw says an extraordinary amount of evidence has required an extension to their work.

MediaRoom column: Very few competitors, and certainly not the sensible ones, cheered the end of Today FM – because all commercial media are staring at the same 'great big wall' on advertising spend that hit its owner MediaWorks this year.