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Caption:Candidate nominations for the local elections open on 4 July.Photo credit:Supplied / LDRVoting papers will be delivered in September.RNZ / Eveline HarveyTauranga City Council held its election in 2024. Councils are normally elected for three years, but Tauranga’s council gets a four-year term.RNZ / Libby Kirkby-McLeod
Local council elections post envelopes.
Housing and Resource Management Act Minister Chris Bishop speaking to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, 18 June 2025,
Jack Karetai-Barrett plans to walk from Whakatāne to Mount Maunganui next week to campaign for people to tick yes for Māori wards.
Nelson’s deputy mayor Rohan O’Neill-Stevens announced he is stepping down at the 2025 local body elections.
ACT leader David Seymour after the final results were announced for the 2023 election.
End of Life: The public toilets at the Boon Street Bus Station will be replaced thanks to funding from NZTA. File Photo (Boon Street Toilets in Stock Shots)
Alana Ruakere says Taranaki is working together to be ready to help train medical students (Supplied - Tui Ora)
Cloudy water with floating solids in a constructed wetland on the Whakatohea mussels factory site, where treated wastewater is discharged before being piped to the Duke Street drain shows the wastewater system was malfunctioning.
The new food and garden organics (FOGO) kerbside collection service bins. Photo / Mathew Nash
Heavy swells at Lyall Bay in Wellington amid wild weather.
Amelia Noyes.
Chris Hipkins
Britain’s King Charles III and Britain’s Queen Camilla make their way back to Buckingham Palace from Horse Guards Parade during the King’s Birthday Parade “Trooping the Colour” in London on June 13, 2026. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)