Foreign Minister Winston Peters is off to New York today to attend the United Nations 80th anniversary meeting.

He says it's a great opportunity to gather information from a broad range of New Zealand's partners on how they view and manage the major conflicts happening around the world.

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New Zealand's hospital facilities are about to get a $100 million investment boost.

The programme will expand and modernise clinical spaces, and strengthen existing infrastructure to avoid the disruption of clinical services.

The funding boost will provide small-scale upgrades nationwide, as well as building on more major projects like those in Nelson and Wellington.

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The Government has just announced a new $70 million tourism package they expect will supercharge the tourism and events sectors.

The funding includes $40 million to secure large-scale international events from next year, and a regional tourism boost campaign.

The boost in funding will help New Zealand complete with Australia for major events.

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Labour's education spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime has met with education minister Erica Stanford to discuss the Government's plan to scrap NCEA.

It comes after the spokesperson refused to meet with the minister while the reform was in its planning stages.

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New Zealand First's annual conference has just drawn to a close, and leader Winston Peters made a speech to his audience of near 1000.

He announced New Zealand First will campaign on making KiwiSaver compulsory, and introduced 10% contributions, which would be compensated by tax cuts.

All this on top of a potentila new candidate for next year's election - Stuart Nash.

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Former Labour minister Stuart Nash has put his hat in the ring to be a candidate to become a New Zealand First MP at the party's AGM this weekend.

Nash was sacked from Cabinet in 2023 after disclosing confidentiall information from a Cabinet meeting to two businessmen.

Now, Winston Peters says he would be a 'seamless' addition.

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The latest New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey shows 156,000 victims of serious violent crimes in the year to May.

It's down 29,000 from when National took office in 2023, and the drop is largely made up of family violence incidents.

However, the number of sexual assault victims has increased by 3,000 in only three months.

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This week the Government announced an express lane to fast-track consent for supermarkets that would improve competition.

The question now being raised, is whether the cost of groceries is a supermarket problem, or a wage problem.

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