One in four New Zealand teenagers looking for work cannot find a job, and independent economic think tank NZIER says an improving economy will not be enough to fix it.…
Former Black Caps opener Jeet Raval has retired from all professional cricket, ending an 18-season first-class career that brought more than 10,000 runs, 24 Test caps and national titles in…
New Zealand Rural Land Company has agreed to sell its five Hawke’s Bay apple and pear orchards for $18.84 million, three months after the collapse of tenant Kiwi Crunch left…
City Gallery Wellington opens its doors in Civic Square today, Saturday 10 October, for the first time since it closed in June 2024 for earthquake strengthening, and it has brought…
New Zealand mountain biker Robin Goomes has won the women’s Red Bull Rampage for the third year in a row, becoming the first rider in the event’s history to take…
National has promised $300 million in cheap government loans to help farmers and growers build water storage. It has also promised to strike supply deals with other countries so fertiliser…
A family-owned online grocer best known for delivering boxes of meat and pantry staples by courier wants to become New Zealand’s third-largest grocery retailer, and it plans to get there…
OpenAI has started putting its GPT-6 artificial intelligence models into ChatGPT for everyone, including people on the free plan, and the change brings a new way of answering that will…
Lower Hutt residents who have spent years shutting their windows against the smell of sewage have been told a fix is coming, but not before the stench gets worse again…
On 6 October WordPress released version 7.1.3, a security update that fixes seven vulnerabilities in the software’s core. On its own that would be routine. What is not routine is…
New Zealand households got slightly poorer on paper in the three months to June, as a $26 billion fall in land values outweighed gains in KiwiSaver balances, bank deposits and…
Damian McKenzie will wear the All Blacks number 10 jersey against the Wallabies at Eden Park on Saturday night, after Richie Mo’unga tore his calf at training this week. Head…
New Zealand Defence Force officials warned in April that the country would be shut out of future Five Eyes information sharing if it did not help build a new US-led…
Taking most sea life from rockpools and beaches across Auckland, Waiheke and the Coromandel will be banned indefinitely from 1 November.
Labour says it will force New Zealand’s big airlines to show the full price of a fare up front, refund passengers automatically when a flight is cancelled or significantly changed,…
An ASB survey of 406 business leaders finds energy is now New Zealand firms’ second-biggest worry, with 31% raising prices and only 37% able to last three days without power.
New Zealand Rugby has taken its fight with the NRL over the name of rugby league’s new Papua New Guinea club to the High Court, asking a judge to stop…
People on the Jobseeker benefit would face random drug tests, and long-term recipients would have their payments cut, under a welfare plan National released on Thursday, a month out from…
Copper thieves have stripped cabling from 12 farm irrigators across North Canterbury, Canterbury police say, with reported losses already above $130,000. In Christchurch, a man was filmed cutting the cable…
The Commerce Commission is taking bargain retailer PD Mart to court, alleging it offered 57 different products for sale that broke New Zealand safety rules, many of them made for…
National has released a 47-point plan for small businesses that would review the $60,000 GST registration threshold, create a fast track for minor employment disputes and let owners update their…
David Tamihere will not stand trial again over the 1989 deaths of Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Höglin, and the man who spent 20 years in prison for their…
A 260 metre truss bridge, 65 metres above the river, will replace the temporary Bailey bridge on State Highway 2 between Napier and Wairoa.
The cost of building a new house in New Zealand rose 1.7 per cent in the three months to September, the fastest quarterly increase since late 2022, according to the…
BJ Watling, the wicketkeeper who stood behind the stumps when New Zealand won the first World Test Championship in 2021, is coming back to the Black Caps as their batting…
Labour has promised to break open New Zealand’s banking market to new competitors if it wins the 7 November election, pledging a new licence for digital wallet and payment companies,…
The Commerce Commission has set out what it will test before deciding whether 2degrees and One NZ can pool their mobile radio equipment in a joint venture called RANCo.
New Zealand apple company T&G Global has launched a new family of apples bred to cope with hotter growing conditions, betting that growers around the world will pay to plant…
Newcastle Knights captain Kalyn Ponga will finally play test rugby league for New Zealand after Kiwis coach Stacey Jones named him in a 23-player squad for the Rugby League World…
A large vegetation fire on the southern shores of Lake Wakatipu, across the water from central Queenstown, was still burning out of control on Wednesday morning after spreading rapidly through…