By Sharon Lundy of NZPA Wellington, May 18 NZPA - Rates could increase to pay local authorities' share of fixing the leaky homes problem, Wellington Mayor Kerry Prendergast says.

By Sharon Lundy of NZPA Wellington, May 17 NZPA - Local authorities appear to support a Government package announced today to fix some of the nation's leaky homes.

By Sharon Lundy of NZPA Wellington, Sept 25 NZPA - The man replacing outgoing Green MP Sue Bradford says he would have preferred to sit alongside her in Parliament, but respects her decision to go.

Wellington, July 23 NZPA - Around 80 percent of complaints received by the Banking Ombudsman about ANZ's handling of ING New Zealand's frozen funds have been settled in favour of the customer.

Labour MP Jacinda Ardern talks to SHARON LUNDY of NZPA about the path to becoming Parliament's youngest current MP. Wellington, July 8 NZPA - Labour's youngest MP, Jacinda Ardern, is pretty glamorous, but her six months in New York were anything but a scene from Sex in the City.