Auckland’s City Rail Link carried its first passengers on Sunday morning, but the celebrations had barely started when a small fire at Waitematā station stopped trains running through the new…
New Zealand’s factories kept growing in August for the 14th month in a row, and the strongest growth was in the south. The BNZ – BusinessNZ Performance of Manufacturing Index…
The Dolphins scored three late tries to beat the Warriors in their NRL qualifying final, sending Andrew Webster’s side into a sudden-death semi-final against the Knights.
The Government is putting $8 million into the Waitangi Treaty Grounds to help keep the Northland site open and look after its buildings. It is the latest in a run…
A drug company wants small packs of pseudoephedrine, the cold and flu decongestant that was effectively off the New Zealand market for more than a decade because of its use…
Surveyor Daniel Williams will chair Auckland’s new Regional Transport Committee, which writes the city’s 30-year transport plan. Here is who sits on it and how it votes.
About 1300 people gave up part of their Saturday to walk through the new Dunedin Hospital outpatient building at a free community open day on 12 September, the public’s first…
A University of Otago researcher has caught fish hundreds of metres down in two Fiordland lakes, far deeper than fish had been recorded in any New Zealand lake.
Goodman Fielder has finished a three-year expansion of its Meadow Fresh milk plant in Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, spending more than $100 million to make more long-life UHT and high-protein dairy…
Employers would no longer need staff to keep logbooks for work vehicles under a tax bill Revenue Minister Simon Watts introduced to Parliament on 10 September, two weeks before the…
Super Rugby Pacific’s Super Round is coming back to Christchurch. All ten teams will play at One New Zealand Stadium from Friday 2 April to Sunday 4 April 2027, after…
The volunteers who have spent years fixing up New Zealand’s remote huts and tracks have a new formal agreement with the Department of Conservation, though for now it changes nothing…
Sir Steve Hansen, the coach who led the All Blacks to the 2015 Rugby World Cup title, has joined the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles as the NRL club’s football performance…
New Zealand companies are being put into liquidation at the fastest rate since 2010, and Inland Revenue is behind most of the court cases pushing them there. Companies Office figures…
Six community groups that take children surfing, dirt biking, kayaking, boxing and tramping will share $2.4 million in the Government’s second round of funding for sport-based youth crime prevention. Sport…
Christchurch’s Orana Wildlife Park needs about $4.1 million or its available cash runs out by March 2027, and its own filed accounts show how fast the gap opened.
Chrome moved to a two-week release cycle on 8 September and iOS 27 brings Safari 27 on 14 September. What the faster pace means for New Zealand business websites.
The first royal albatross chicks of the season have left Taiaroa Head near Dunedin, the only mainland site in the world where the giant seabirds breed, and rangers are hoping…
New Zealand house prices are unlikely to climb back to their 2021 highs until late 2029, and buyers should not expect the fast capital gains of the past three decades…
Layla Sae is back from a ruptured knee ligament in time for the Black Ferns’ European tour, and double Olympic sevens champion Alena Saili is back in a Black Ferns…
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop says a law change going through Parliament next week will let councils charge fast-track developers more for the roads, pipes and services their projects need. His…
The India free trade bill has cleared select committee with a fix for part-year fruit quotas, leaving six sitting days to pass it before the election.
Mercury has officially opened the second stage of its Kaiwera Downs wind farm near Gore, completing what is now the South Island’s largest wind farm after a combined investment of…
Mark Chapman has given up his New Zealand Cricket central contract so he can play in Australia’s Big Bash this summer, and the move has handed Northern Districts fast bowler…
Gisborne District Council burnt nearly 1100 cubic metres of logs and slash opposite Watson Park in a trial and decides Friday on a full burn of up to seven days…
The helicopter that crashed in Mt Aspiring National Park in May, killing pilot Tim Brown and hunting guide Sean Roach, fell about 30 metres down a mountainside after its main…
Black Ferns co-captain Ruahei Demant has been ruled out of all three European tests with a calf injury, leaving Georgia Ponsonby as sole captain.
A southern right whale and her calf have moved south past Auckland after four days off Northland, and DOC wants people watching from the beach rather than the water.
MSD’s review into wrongly suspended winter energy payments and benefits found 16,270 superannuitants and veterans were affected and $2.5 million in arrears was paid back.
The FMA’s 2026 KiwiSaver Annual Report shows the average balance reaching $40,340 and funds under management hitting a record $138.8 billion, while 41.3 percent of members are not contributing.