COMMENT: Spending a bed tax to attract more tourists makes no sense, says an economist, says Tim Hazledine.

Editorial: Auckland is New Zealand's biggest tourism market and principal gateway to the country.

COMMENT: A successful woman offers some advice to mark International Women's Day, writes Ziena Jalil.

COMMENT: New research finds pay gap has little to do with women doing different work.

Paris might seem like a long way from New Zealand however it's just a press of a button.

Herald and World Vision appeal for funds to bring clear water to a Pacific village.

She will need to balance Leader Andrew Little's image.

EDITORIAL: Australian Senator Stephen Parry thinks New Zealand ought to restore the "upper house" of our Parliament.

In "clean, green New Zealand" just 72 per cent of rivers, streams and lakes are considered safe for swimming and it will remain that way for a while.

HIV-positive figure's condom-free message clashes with international medical advice.

EDITORIAL: Geological testing confirms New Zealand is a dry ridge of a lump of continental crust.

EDITORIAL: Education should open doors for everyone to fulfil their potential.

COMMENT: In the fight for survival, the Maori Party needs to say it will go with Labour if it has the choice in 2017, writes Claire Trevett.

This Government has never had much time for the NZ Superannuation Fund set up by the previous Government.

It may be wondered whether a country of NZ's size and population is well served by such a fragmented civil defence organisation.

There are, clearly, mechanisms which could help better manage pressures arising from tourism - and sustain the appeal of our natural assets.

Auckland's Mt Albert electorate is having one of the strangest election contests New Zealand has seen.

Christchurch must be wondering what it has done to deserve the ravages of nature.

COMMENT: Figures released last month by Niwa show that 2016 was the hottest year on record for New Zealand, with record or near-record breaking temperatures for many locations, writes Adelia Hallett.

COMMENT: They are the ninjas of losing, the candidates who must lose to win. writes Claire Trevett.

Michael Flynn's resignation almost certainly will not be the last scene in the spectacular opening act of President Donald Trump's administration.

The annual trans-Tasman Prime Ministers' meeting, hosted by NZ in Queenstown this weekend, will be different from the last one.

Trump has not responded to North Korea's first provocation in the way many probably feared.

An inquiry into the abuse of children and others in state care to ensure the mistakes of the past are not being repeated would surely do no harm.

EDITORIAL: Prostitution was made legal in NZ 14 years ago, with hopes it would remove the stigma, this has not been the case.

Controversial work will promote curiosity and debate in the best tradition of public art.

EDITORIAL: Lisa Carrington has been recognised as one of our truly great sporting figures with the Halberg Award for 2016.

Graeme Wheeler is only the third in the role in nearly three decades and the first not to seek reappointment for a second five-year term.

This week we released our most ambitious venture to date into this genre, a 30-minute documentary on a struggling Auckland secondary school.

The saga so far encourages hope that the constitutional checks on power in the US will be capable of restraining a rogue President.