Auckland Transport has pulled scam QR code stickers off city centre parking meters, eight weeks after the same trick appeared in Christchurch and days after Wellington removed about a dozen.
More than 80 South Island athletes with physical disabilities will compete in the third Halberg Games South at Ngā Puna Wai and Rangi Ruru on 3 and 4 October 2026.
NZ Post will shut the staffed Sockburn counter in western Christchurch on 10 November, and the deed behind its store network only requires community consultation in rural areas.
The national average asking rent rose 1.5 percent in August but fell in five regions, and the official measure of rents actually paid rose just 0.5 percent.
New Zealand has secured the 2028 PSA Squash World Championships for Auckland, with a $1 million government investment and an Olympic qualifying window that runs right through the tournament.
New Zealand’s aluminium extruders will not get emergency protection from a surge in cheap imports, at least not yet, while the investigation that could deliver a longer lasting tariff finishes…
New Zealand will be represented by four athletes at the first World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest this weekend, and all four of them are women. World Athletics published the…
Tauranga City Council will add a lane, limit lines and fresh road markings at the Judea roundabout after 32 reported crashes since 2020. A resident whose fence has been hit…
Labour has done the sums on freezing fuel excise duty for a full term but will not release them until Treasury opens the books on 29 September.
The Stella Passage development has been granted fast track approval, lifting the container ceiling at New Zealand’s biggest port from 1.2 million to about 2 million TEUs a year.
Health New Zealand says patient numbers remain above historic winter levels and elective surgery is being deferred for at least another three to four weeks.
Scott McLaughlin took his first IndyCar win in almost two years at Laguna Seca while Scott Dixon closed out 25 years with Chip Ganassi Racing.
Median weekly earnings rose 2.8 percent in the year to June 2026 while the consumers price index rose 4.1 percent, and Stats NZ weighting data shows the squeeze landed very…
A shed blew over on an Ahipara property and a vehicle was caught in floodwater near Murchison overnight as a large trough carried heavy rain onto the North Island.
The Reserve Bank lifted the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent on 2 September, and within a day the country’s biggest banks had handed every point…
Shane Jones and Chris Bishop have approved the first two investments from the $200 million Gas Security Fund, lending up to $23.5 million to Todd Energy for drilling in Taranaki.
Imogen Ayris was fifth, Zoe Hobbs and Tom Walsh sixth, as three New Zealanders closed out their seasons at the Diamond League final in Brussels.
A leopard seal hauled out on Petone Beach on Saturday afternoon and DOC says more than 150 people have been down to look at it.
National would replace the $95,000 and $150,000 income caps on the First Home Loan scheme with a single $300,000 cap, widening access to 5 percent deposits.
Terms of trade fell 9 percent in the June 2026 quarter while export prices rose. Stats NZ data back to 1957 shows imported fuel accounts for the whole fall.
About 30 emergency department nurses at Gisborne Hospital walk off the job on Wednesday over staffing they say is unsafe, in a district the Government ranks third best in the…
ANZ has proposed closing its Dunedin contact centre, cutting 15 customer-facing roles to two and moving the work to Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
A suspicious fire destroyed a storage shed behind the Honey House Cafe at Kerikeri Basin late on Friday, metres from a 204-year-old Kemp House wrapped in plastic for reroofing.
New Zealand had fewer people learning a trade on the job last year than in any year since 2011, and the pipeline kept shrinking through the first quarter of 2026,…
Hawke’s Bay beat Otago 35-24 to go six from six, leaving them the only unbeaten side in the NPC at the halfway point of the competition’s fiftieth year.
Enrolment for the 7 November election closes at midnight on 25 October and almost 188,000 people aged 18 to 24 are still not on the roll.
Polls opened on Friday for Bird of the Year 2026, and this year the native birds have been sorted into six parties. Voting closes on 20 September.
A new Debtfix report shows 57.9 percent of people referred for a KiwiSaver hardship withdrawal were supported another way instead, as Inland Revenue figures show hardship withdrawals still climbing.
A Chanel Harris-Tavita field goal in the 77th minute gave the Warriors a 31 to 30 win over Manly, their 18th of the season and the most the club has…
ANZ card spending was flat in August with annual growth easing to 4.1 percent, matching inflation. Hospitality went backwards while movie theatres and air travel surged.