The 2026/27 cruise season opened in Auckland on Saturday with the Crown Princess, and Princess Cruises used the day to commit to doubling its New Zealand port calls from 2028/29.
Tauranga City Council has formally accepted every finding and recommendation of the independent review into the landslide that killed six people at the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park in January,…
Parliament’s Justice Committee is expected to recommend the move-on orders bill no longer apply to anyone under 18, with its report due back on Thursday.
There were 32,908 homes listed for sale at the end of August, a 12 year high for the time of year, while new listings fell 5.1 percent and asking prices…
Netball New Zealand has signed a non-binding term sheet putting its elite domestic competition in private hands from 2027, with a minimum of five teams.
Three patrols around Whananaki in late August turned up a 100 percent non-compliance rate, including 42 undersized packhorse rock lobster, speared animals and seized dive gear.
Total light vehicle registrations rose 7.6 percent in August and Chinese brands took 18.7 percent of new registrations, but rental fleets wrote nearly three in ten new passenger sales.
Seventeen dogs arrived in a fortnight, filling every bed the charity has and pushing six more onto a waitlist.
The long empty site where the Waiwera hot pools once stood has cleared its biggest hurdle, with the developers announcing on Tuesday that Auckland Council has granted resource consent for…
The Education and Workforce Committee has recommended the Modern Slavery Bill be passed, with ACT the only party opposed. Parliament has nine sitting days left.
Centrix data shows more than 2,900 hospitality businesses ceased trading over the past year and 422 went into liquidation, a rate 3.3 times the national average.
Ryan Fox has qualified automatically for the International Team at the 2026 Presidents Cup, ending a wait that goes back to Danny Lee in 2015.
Spring has arrived. September is when the gardening year really starts — potatoes go in, peas and carrots can be sown, and the summer vegetables begin their long journey from…
She was 18 when she filled in the drains as fast as the European farmer could dig them, 55 when she became the first president of the Māori Women’s Welfare…
ANZ’s August Business Outlook has confidence down to 53.7, but the survey’s backward-looking activity measure lifted to 16.4 from 9.7 as services picked up.
Labour says it will offer every New Zealand trained nurse a public health job at graduation, a $525 million guarantee that runs into a wall officials described to the Health…
Twenty four choirs competed in Christchurch over three days and all eight gold awards went to Auckland schools, three of them to the two Westlake colleges.
National would cut the compulsory student loan repayment rate to 10 cents in the dollar from April 2027 and add a percentage point of interest for borrowers living overseas.
Filled jobs rose 18,033 over the year to July 2026, but health, public administration and education supplied 87 percent of the gain while eight industries shrank.
A very bright green fireball crossed the upper North Island just before 7.44pm on Sunday. Fireballs Aotearoa says the rock most likely fell into the sea.
ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Westpac and Kiwibank all expect the Reserve Bank to lift the official cash rate to 2.75 percent on 2 September, with inflation at 4.1 percent and unemployment…
The Prime Minister says remaining in the Paris Agreement is non-negotiable after the election, putting him at odds with ACT and New Zealand First.
The Warriors beat the Newcastle Knights at Mount Smart on Sunday and now lead the NRL ladder by a single point of differential with one round of the season left.
ACT has released a six-part fisheries policy with a nationwide daily limit of 10 shellfish and a permanent end to scallop dredging in closed North Island fisheries.
Internal Health NZ documents and a nurse describe waits of more than 24 hours at Wellington Hospital’s emergency department, in the district with the worst six hour result in the…
Rotorua rider Lachlan Stevens-McNab has finished within seven tenths of a second of a world title, taking silver in the elite men’s downhill at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships…
Australia is withdrawing all 24 staff from its Macquarie Island station before an expected bird flu die-off, and New Zealand’s subantarctic islands lie about 700km away.
New Zealand held off Iran 93-91 in extra time in Manila for a fifth straight win in Basketball World Cup qualifying, with Syria to come later today.
Port of Tauranga moved less cargo across its wharves in the year to June than it did the year before, and made more money doing it than it ever has.…
The retiring Whangārei MP used his valedictory speech to tell the soft drink industry to reformulate, and to explain the six hours he says saved the most lives in his…