King Country plays its first Meads Cup final on Saturday, meeting defending champions Mid Canterbury in Ashburton for the Heartland Championship trophy named after Sir Colin Meads.
New Zealand’s new super-ministry MCERT wants to cut 400 roles, a quarter of its staff, with consultation closing four days before the 7 November election. Labour says it would halt…
The Wellington commuter train that smashed into a concrete stop block at Khandallah in June passed a red departure signal, its emergency brake came on in the same second, and…
Costco has won fast-track referral for its first South Island store on a 17.68ha site beside Christchurch Airport, with officials forecasting 486 jobs. Consent is still to come.
A Kaikōura motel operator that treated its housekeeper as a casual on-call worker for nearly 16 months, without ever giving her a written employment agreement, has lost its Employment Court…
Earth Sciences New Zealand forecasts seven to eleven named cyclones for the Southwest Pacific this season as a strong El Niño builds, with New Zealand’s risk rated normal and greatest…
Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins both told a Herald debate audience on Wednesday night that they have never lied in politics, then spent the next hour and a half accusing…
Creditors asked the High Court to wind up 1,072 New Zealand companies in the first nine months of 2026, more than in any full calendar year from 2017 to 2023,…
Tall Black Carlin Davison produced the best night of his Australian NBL career on Wednesday as the New Zealand Breakers beat the defending champion Sydney Kings 102-101 in Canberra, holding…
The Government has settled on a preferred company to build and run New Zealand’s first liquefied natural gas import terminal at Port Taranaki, but it did not announce the decision.…
Labour’s 2026 economic plan would redirect up to $50 million a year of the Government’s NZ Super Fund contribution into the Elevate venture capital fund. National says the recovery is…
SkyCity, the TAB, Entain, Betway’s owner and Stake are among 11 entities that won a government auction for the right to apply for New Zealand’s first online casino licences, with…
New Zealand’s brief taste of summer is over. A slow-moving front has stalled over the South Island, putting Buller under an orange heavy rain warning, lining up severe gales for…
SpaceX says it has agreed to buy a nationwide portfolio of low-band mobile spectrum in the United States, a purchase it says will let its Starlink Mobile service become a…
Bayleys has confirmed a conditional sale and purchase agreement for Auckland’s stalled Seascape tower and the city block around it, with the buyer reported to be planning New Zealand’s tallest…
More than 200 New Zealanders are hurt in their own gardens every day, and the busiest stretch of the year for those injuries is starting right now. ACC says it…
Hundreds of Woolworths store management team members walked off the job for an hour on 13 October, the first strike by managers in the chain’s history, over an offer the…
Camille French has won the Melbourne Marathon eleven months after the birth of her second daughter, and the 36 year old from Cambridge says the victory has convinced her a…
Peters, Seymour, Swarbrick, Wong and Waititi clash in the TVNZ Multi-Party Debate as a new poll ties National and Labour and leaves Opportunity holding the balance of power.
Google Ads has started lifting discounts and deals straight off advertisers’ websites and attaching them to search ads, and New Zealand businesses that run local campaigns are in unless they…
Almost one in three New Zealand households went without enough good food at some point in the past year, and most of them only started struggling within the last twelve…
The Black Ferns are home. After a month on the road that took them through Johannesburg, Lyon, Edinburgh and London, New Zealand’s women’s rugby team opens a three-test home series…
Ryman Healthcare and Summerset Group both reported higher resales for the September 2026 quarter, but new sales fell 28 per cent at each as a soft housing market slows settlements.
National has ruled out any new tax cuts in the next term of government. Its fiscal plan, released on Monday 12 October by leader Christopher Luxon and finance spokesperson Nicola…
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.