ACT’s election fiscal plan would lift the superannuation age to 67 by 2035, pause Super Fund contributions and cut $653 million from disability benefits, as Willis and Edmonds agree to…
Petrol has climbed to a new record in New Zealand, with the national average for a litre of 91 now about $3.60, and a former Marsden Point refinery manager says…
New Zealand driver Liam Lawson scored points in both races at the Singapore Grand Prix over the weekend, finishing fifth in Saturday’s sprint and seventh in Sunday night’s Grand Prix…
New Zealand’s National Cyber Security Centre has co-authored an FBI-led advisory on hackers the agencies say are enabled by China-based Integrity Technology Group.
New Zealand firms are far more hopeful about the economy than they were three months ago, but most of them are not yet seeing that hope turn up in their…
A Federated Farmers survey of nearly 650 farmers finds patchy 4G coverage since the 3G switch-off, with many unable to reliably call 111.
Gisborne medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience has signed a deal to import pharmaceutical-grade MDMA into New Zealand, lining up a local supply for the psychiatrists now allowed to use it…
Canterbury finished an unbeaten season by beating Auckland Storm 50-24 in Christchurch, ending a run of three straight Farah Palmer Cup final defeats.
National has promised that, if it is re-elected on 7 November, New Zealand teenagers will no longer be able to walk out of school partway through Year 11. The party…
A gothic horror film about a young Māori woman who travels from Wellington to a brooding Yorkshire manor will carry New Zealand’s hopes at the 2027 Academy Awards. The New…
The All Blacks have kept the Bledisloe Cup for a 24th straight year after a 50-19 win over the Wallabies at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday night, scoring seven…
New Zealand First has promised to ban the public sale and private use of fireworks within the first 100 days of the next government, putting it at odds with the…
Auckland mortgage adviser and lender Squirrel is weighing a public listing, possibly in late 2027, and says the aim is to let ordinary New Zealanders own a piece of the…
National says it will ban ring-net fishing in the Hauraki Gulf’s high protection areas, create a new marine reserve off Waiheke Island and make the Goat Island reserve bigger if…
Boaties heading out after spring snapper are being asked to keep an eye on the sky as well as the sounder. Flesh-footed shearwaters, a declining seabird that breeds only on…
Westpac now expects New Zealand inflation to climb to 4.2 per cent by the end of the year, its highest level in three years, as record petrol prices and a…
The White Ferns fly to Australia on Monday with an interim coach, a stand-in team manager and no Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates or Lea Tahuhu, after a review of New…
New Zealand’s round-the-clock earthquake and tsunami monitoring centre was shut for a full shift on Friday because there were not enough staff to run it safely, a closure the NZ…
New Zealand First has promised to lift the minimum wage by at least the rate of inflation every year for three years if it is part of the next government,…
One in four New Zealand teenagers looking for work cannot find a job, and independent economic think tank NZIER says an improving economy will not be enough to fix it.…
Former Black Caps opener Jeet Raval has retired from all professional cricket, ending an 18-season first-class career that brought more than 10,000 runs, 24 Test caps and national titles in…
New Zealand Rural Land Company has agreed to sell its five Hawke’s Bay apple and pear orchards for $18.84 million, three months after the collapse of tenant Kiwi Crunch left…
City Gallery Wellington opens its doors in Civic Square today, Saturday 10 October, for the first time since it closed in June 2024 for earthquake strengthening, and it has brought…
New Zealand mountain biker Robin Goomes has won the women’s Red Bull Rampage for the third year in a row, becoming the first rider in the event’s history to take…
National has promised $300 million in cheap government loans to help farmers and growers build water storage. It has also promised to strike supply deals with other countries so fertiliser…
A family-owned online grocer best known for delivering boxes of meat and pantry staples by courier wants to become New Zealand’s third-largest grocery retailer, and it plans to get there…
OpenAI has started putting its GPT-6 artificial intelligence models into ChatGPT for everyone, including people on the free plan, and the change brings a new way of answering that will…
Lower Hutt residents who have spent years shutting their windows against the smell of sewage have been told a fix is coming, but not before the stench gets worse again…
On 6 October WordPress released version 7.1.3, a security update that fixes seven vulnerabilities in the software’s core. On its own that would be routine. What is not routine is…
New Zealand households got slightly poorer on paper in the three months to June, as a $26 billion fall in land values outweighed gains in KiwiSaver balances, bank deposits and…