Liam Lawson has finished seventh at the rain-hit Bahrain Grand Prix, which was run at Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit, after a brave tyre call by Racing Bulls helped him shoot…
Some of New Zealand’s biggest food exporters, banks and the Government have put another $117 million into AgriZeroNZ, the joint venture set up to find and fund tools that cut…
Labour says every one of its election promises is paid for, after releasing its long-awaited fiscal plan on Sunday 4 October. National’s Nicola Willis has hit back hard, claiming the…
Foodstuffs has hit back at plans to split Pak’nSave from New World, releasing a review by Sydney-based economics consultancy HoustonKemp that says the modelling behind the break-up would only work…
The Government has bought a 13-hectare block of land in Drury, at the southern edge of Auckland, as the site for a future hospital to serve one of the fastest-growing…
ACT would stop taxing the investment earnings inside KiwiSaver accounts, leader David Seymour told the party’s election campaign launch in Auckland on Sunday, in a plan that would cost about…
New Zealand has warmed 1.36°C since 1909 and carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide hit record highs at Baring Head in 2025, Stats NZ data released 2 October shows.
New Zealanders flying to Australia could leave their passports in their bags at the airport gate under a trial National has promised to run before the 2028 T20 cricket World…
Former Kangaroos winger Dane Gagai has been cleared to play for New Zealand, opening the door for the 35-year-old Newcastle Knights centre to line up for the Kiwis against Australia…
A strong magnitude 5.3 quake east of New Plymouth woke Taranaki at 2.57am Saturday, with more than 7,300 felt reports and no link to the volcano.
New Zealand’s video game developers earned more than $1 billion in a year for the first time, but they did it with fewer people on the payroll. The New Zealand…
The Green Party has promised a $4 billion plan to bring back passenger trains between New Zealand’s main cities, including an overnight sleeper train between Auckland and Wellington, a new…
Up to 15 rare pygmy killer whales have died in a stranding on Ninety Mile Beach in the Far North, eight years after the same species stranded there in 2018.
All Blacks captain Ardie Savea will play his Super Rugby next season for the Blues, after the Auckland club confirmed on Friday that he has signed a one-season deal for…
Electric car registrations in New Zealand roughly tripled in the three months to the end of September, as petrol at well over $3 a litre pushed households and businesses toward…
The Green Party has promised to restore New Zealand’s pay equity law and set aside about $1.1 billion a year to settle the claim of roughly 65,000 care and support…
Kingfish are already on the outer Gulf workups and gurnard are feeding up before their early summer spawn. The 17 degree dates, the rules, and the stock reports for both…
National’s Electrify NZ 2.0 plan targets lines charges, solar trading and dry-year supply. Labour calls it a fizzer.
Officials have confirmed overheating rules will skip the 2028 Building Code review, leaving families in hot new townhouses waiting until 2031.
Labour says it would ban paint insurance on new cars, stop shops pushing extended warranties at the checkout and force gyms, ticket sellers and subscription services to show the full…
Heartland Group Holdings shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to buy TSB Bank for $620 million, clearing the last vote standing between the Taranaki bank and a merger that would create New…
For most of the past year, New Zealand businesses have been flying blind in Google. AI Mode arrived here on 22 August 2025, AI Overviews sat above the ordinary results,…
Wellington City Council and the region’s new water company, Tiaki Wai, have both been charged over the sewage that has poured into the sea off Wellington’s south coast since the…
The liquidators of SolarZero, the government-backed rooftop solar company that collapsed in November 2024, have gone to the High Court against four of its former directors, alleging decisions made before…
The All Whites will play Japan for the Kirin Cup in Tokyo on Monday night after a flawless penalty shootout took them past Panama in Yokohama on Thursday. The match…
The Government has put back a long-standing ban on fitting a switch or fuse into the main earth and neutral wire of New Zealand homes and businesses, ten months after…
Drivers in New Zealand must now leave at least 1.5 metres when they pass a cyclist, and they must give way to buses pulling out from stops on slower roads.…
Phil Gifford, the sports journalist, broadcaster and author who wrote about New Zealand sport for more than half a century and invented the satirical rugby character Loosehead Len, has died…
The Warehouse Group is back in profit, but not because of its famous red sheds. The retailer reported to the NZX on Tuesday evening a net profit after tax of…
New Zealand’s free trade agreement with the European Union is facing its first formal climate complaint, five weeks out from the general election, and the Government says it has done…