A Whakatāne primary school lost 125 of its 439 pupils to illness on Monday as New Zealand’s late influenza season strains schools, rest homes and hospitals.
The Government will cap council rates rises at 4 per cent, but the law will not pass before the election and the average household saves just $34 a year.
Richie Mo’unga starts at first five-eighth against the Lions in Johannesburg, his first game in black since the 2023 World Cup final.
New Zealand’s women meet Chile in the fifteenth place playoff on Thursday while the men take on Ireland for ninth after winning their classification pool.
Kogan’s full year results show Mighty Ape revenue down 30 per cent and the Christchurch distribution centre closed less than three years after it opened.
An Ipsos survey released on Tuesday puts water and sewage first on 47 percent and solar second on 40 percent, with housing supply down to sixth.
Fifteen live exercises, more than 1,400 volunteer passengers and 75 actors have tested how emergency crews would handle a fire 40 metres under central Auckland.
He was 19 in Spain at the 1982 World Cup and 31 when he topped the Champions League scoring charts. The story of how a Strathmore boy with a Swiss…
The Government introduced its under 16 social media ban on Monday. ACT and New Zealand First will vote against it and Luxon says it cannot pass this term.
A slow moving Tasman low is set to park over the South Island from Wednesday, with prolonged heavy rain for the West Coast and more than 30cm of snow forecast…
Retail sales volumes fell 0.5 percent in the June quarter, the first drop since September 2024. Fuel retailing volumes fell 13 percent while the money spent on fuel rose $299…
A council report warns about 10 graves at the 1873 Tararu Cemetery could move downhill onto the Thames Coast Road, with fixes costed at up to $480,000.
Labour has settled on the three words it will put on every hoarding between now and polling day. The party unveiled its 2026 campaign slogan, “Better starts now”, at a…
Stats NZ trade figures for July show a $1.9 billion monthly deficit, with petroleum imports up 127 percent on a year ago and the annual fuel bill reaching $12.1 billion.
Tiki Wine & Vineyards in North Canterbury is the first New Zealand vineyard and winery to hold Certified Regenerative status from A Greener World, after six years of rebuilding soil…
Ten years of Stats NZ prices set against average hourly earnings show the shopping basket has split in two, with export foods racing ahead and domestic ones falling back.
Liam Lawson finished seventh at the Dutch Grand Prix standing in for the injured Isack Hadjar, scoring the first points of his career in a Red Bull.
The Opportunity Party has crossed the 5 percent threshold for the first time in the RNZ-Reid Research series, leaving neither bloc able to govern without it.
Kiwibank opened in a Palmerston North PostShop in 2002 on $80 million of share capital. Jim Anderton had to beat his own Prime Minister and Finance Minister to get it.
The country’s largest listed company has lifted full year profit guidance to between $525 million and $565 million, and named a hard figure for tariff money coming back from Washington.
The Palmerston North 17-year-old won at Les Gets in the wet to seal the junior men’s downhill World Cup series, the first New Zealand man to take an overall downhill…
A vegetation fire ran about a kilometre through steep scrub behind Albert Town houses on Saturday night, forcing 22 households out. No house was lost and the cause is still…
National has promised no new taxes if re-elected on 7 November, ruling out an accommodation levy and a bank tax while saying nothing about fuel excise.
Coroner Louella Dunn has found the death of Rotorua teenager Jade Richards on the way home from Rhythm and Vines was preventable, and asked festivals to warn drivers about fatigue.
A late field goal from rookie Luke Hanson sent the Warriors past Penrith by one point of for and against.
The state owned bank made $174 million in the year to June, down 9 percent, after a thinner margin ate into a $3.1 billion jump in lending.
The substantive fast track consent application for a 250 metre dry dock at Marsden Point has been lodged with the EPA.
On the evening of 12 August 1975, on a windy track in Gothenburg with a Swedish pacemaker who dropped out 100 metres early, a 23-year-old from Manurewa named John Walker…
A northern giant petrel picked up on a Cape Palliser beach is New Zealand’s third confirmed H5 bird flu case, with no poultry detections and no mass die-offs so far.
The Black Ferns scored 10 tries at Go Media Stadium in Auckland on Saturday afternoon to beat the Wallaroos 66-19, holding on to the Laurie O’Reilly Cup and stretching a…