National has promised a further $604 million for Pharmac’s medicines budget if it is re-elected on 7 November, and it plans to pay for most of it by cutting New…
Black Caps allrounder Michael Bracewell has given up his New Zealand Cricket central contract and moved to a casual deal so he can play in Australia’s Big Bash League this…
Card surcharges have become the main reason New Zealanders give for not paying by contactless, according to new research released today by Payments NZ, the industry governance body for the…
New Zealand’s best known wool carpet maker has a new controlling owner. David Ferrier’s Mangawhai Collective will end up holding 55 per cent of Bremworth after its partial takeover offer…
The All Whites have lost the Kirin Cup final to Japan 2-1 in Tokyo, with Japan captain Ritsu Doan scoring the winner in the 71st minute after Ben Old had…
Cocaine use in New Zealand has roughly tripled since 2017, with cheaper prices, easier access and growing social acceptance driving what one of the country’s leading drug researchers calls a…
National has slumped to 25.9 per cent in the latest RNZ Reid Research poll, released this morning just hours before Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins meet in the first televised…
WorkSafe inspectors are visiting residential building sites around New Zealand from now until the end of the year to check how builders and tradespeople are stopping workers falling from height.…
Tech New Zealand’s annual metrics report shows software exports up nearly 20 per cent but jobs, firms and R&D down, and a 37 per cent fall in school leavers starting…
Paymark data shows New Zealand retail spending fell 1.3% in September and 1.8% in August as petrol, interest rates and bad weather hit households before Christmas.
New Zealand’s Dairy Goat Co-operative, the Hamilton company that invented goat milk infant formula, has brought in a US investor to fund a push back into China and a first…
Fire and Emergency New Zealand has asked every household to pack a grab bag and agree an escape plan before summer arrives, warning that the very strong El Niño now…
National has promised $800 million to build the Woodend Bypass north of Christchurch if it leads the next government, putting money behind a motorway project that its own transport agency…
Hamilton golfer Steven Alker has won for the fourth time on the PGA Tour Champions this year, taking the Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic in Allentown, Pennsylvania, by a single shot…
New Zealand’s heaviest insect has been pulled back from the brink. The Little Barrier giant wētā, known in Māori as wētāpunga, was once reduced to a single shrinking population on…
Firms that answered ANZ’s September survey after oil jumped again were far gloomier, yet inflation expectations held steady at 3.25 percent.
Wellington Hospital’s emergency department has run at code red, its highest pressure level, about half the time over the past six months, and nurses say their requests for extra staff…
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.