Stories by Gia Garrick

National's Dan Bidois has won the Northcote by-election by a margin of more than 1300 votes over Labour candidate Shanan Halbert. Audio

Just over a week to go in the Northcote by-election and Labour's spying an opportunity, with its internal polls signalling a tight race between the two major parties.

The Race Relations Commissioner and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner are calling it quits.

The Foreign Minister says he's deeply concerned at confirmation the missile that brought down flight MH17 four years ago came from Russian forces.

A stoush over a proposed HNZ complex in an upmarket Auckland suburb shows no sign of being resolved, with the Epsom MP doubling down on his contentious remarks.

A member's bill nearly 20 years in the making has passed its first reading at Parliament, and it has come about in quite an unusual fashion.

The number of people asking for help finding a home is skyrocketing, and the coalition government is under renewed pressure to deliver on its promises.

The government is going to get tough on farmers who don't register their animals as the Mycoplasma bovis disease spreads.

A member's bill that would require employers to give a victim of domestic violence 10 days leave from work is on shaky ground as the National Party withdraws its support over new details.