Politics

NZ First's Mark Patterson has clashed with opposition and coalition MPs alike over the Waikato Medical School, Jobs for Nature, and school buses.

Oranga Tamariki aims to run its second boot camp for serious youth offenders in March next year using a new design.

Morgan (Zhi Hong) Xiao, also known as 'Demon King' (魔王) online, has been ordered to pay more than $200,000.

The summit comes after Finance Minister Nicola Willis cast doubt on whether New Zealand would pay for the carbon credits it needed to meet its 2030 emissions promise.

Lead negotiator Ken Mair said the ceremony marked a major milestone in a "long and tiring" Treaty settlement journey.

The government intends to pass the legislation by the end of the year.

During a scrutiny week hearing, Suzanne Tindal said management of the issues resulted in O'Donnell having to recuse himself from "a number of items on the board agenda".

Local government inflation was 3.3 percent this year, meaning almost all of a 4 percent rates cap would have been used to cover inflation, Nadine Taylor said.

Under scrutiny week questioning, ministry CEO Andrew Kibblewhite said it was a hypothesis, but that more investigation was needed.

Treasury says the overall financial outlook is mixed, continuing trends from recent months.

Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has applied for a temporary court order to reinstate her into the party and remove its president John Tamihere.

Analysis - Writers had their fun calling it 'Coster's Last Stand', and like the general's doomed battle, it ended with a crushing fall, writes Craig McCulloch.

It comes despite a Climate Change Commission warning that New Zealand is being hit sooner and more severely than expected.

The amount brings New Zealand's total monetary contributions for the country's war efforts to more than $53m, more than half of it for weapons and ammunition. Audio