Seventeen training and business development grants to support private sector development in the Pacific Islands were announced today by Associate Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Upton.

Labour would deny hundreds of thousands of consumers the already substantial benefits of the power reforms, with its central control electricity policy, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradfor

The New Zealand Government has decided to give an additional $250,000 as a cash grant to the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for East Timor (UNHCET).

The Minister of Health today announced Nelson Hospital would be revamped and modernised to the tune of $35.5 million.

Consultation on the Government's proposals for changing the way our roads are managed is continuing, Transport Minister Maurice Williamson said today.

The Government is committed to a fair student loan scheme, Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford said today.

Conservation Minister Nick Smith is bitterly disappointed at Labour's decision today to vote against the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Bill and said the Government had withdrawn the Bill from further co

Treasurer Bill English said overseas trade data released today showed that exports were picking up in the September quarter.

"Important new safeguards for computer systems moved a significant step closer today with the second reading and referral to Select Committee of the Crimes Amendment Bill (No.6)," Justice Minister,