What to plant in your New Zealand garden this October
October is Labour Weekend — which in Kiwi gardening folklore means the tomatoes go in. It’s also the month for corn, beans, cucumber and the first kūmara in the warm…
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Woolworths confirms it will move 130 New Zealand customer care jobs to Sydney
Woolworths New Zealand will close its Auckland customer care centre and move the work to Sydney, ending about 130 jobs in New Zealand. The supermarket chain confirmed the decision on…
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Queenstown helicopter company loses two $1 million helicopters over illegal crayfish dinners for Rees Hotel guests
A Queenstown helicopter company has been fined $12,000 and ordered to hand two helicopters worth more than $1 million each to the Crown, after flying luxury hotel guests into Fiordland…
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Former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe dies as MPs from every party remember his calm and fairness in New Zealand’s Parliament
Former Speaker of the House Adrian Rurawhe has died after a short illness, and politicians from every corner of New Zealand’s Parliament spent Wednesday remembering a man they described as…
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Auckland guest nights jump 12.7 per cent in August as hotel demand outpaces new rooms
Auckland’s hotels and motels had their busiest August on MBIE’s current records, with guest nights across the region up 12.7 per cent on a year earlier. Figures in MBIE’s Accommodation…
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New Zealand emergency departments hit a record 1.4 million visits a year as North Shore Hospital wins 24 more nurses
New Zealand’s emergency departments are now handling more than 1.4 million visits a year, a record, and two in every three patients arrive sick enough to be triaged as high…
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KiwiRail posts $1.4 billion loss after writing down Auckland’s City Rail Link, but its trains beat target
KiwiRail has posted a net loss of $1.41 billion for the year to 30 June 2026, more than three times the previous year’s $422 million deficit, after writing almost $1.2…
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Kiwis hooker Phoenix Crossland banned for the NRL grand final and three World Cup games over Nathan Cleary tackle
New Zealand hooker Phoenix Crossland will miss Sunday’s NRL grand final and the Kiwis’ three Rugby League World Cup pool games after the NRL judiciary handed him a four-match ban…
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Immigration New Zealand software approved 32 visitor visas and 23 job checks without any human assessment
Software faults in Immigration New Zealand’s online visa system let 32 visitor visas and 23 Job Check applications be approved without an immigration officer ever assessing them, according to official…
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Codie Taylor to captain the All Blacks against Australia as Scott Barrett and Shannon Frizell return for the Bledisloe Cup
Codie Taylor will captain the All Blacks against the Wallabies next month, and two familiar names are back in the black jersey for the first time this year. Head coach…
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Glassons owner Hallenstein Glasson lifts profit 50 per cent on Australian growth
Clothing retailer Hallenstein Glasson has lifted its annual profit by almost half, with its Glassons chain in Australia doing much of the heavy lifting while many New Zealand retailers are…
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Treasury says New Zealand’s books are better than forecast as deficit shrinks to $6.8 billion before the election
Treasury has opened the government’s books for the last time before the election, and the numbers are better than they were in May. The Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update released…
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Dannevirke hospital not safe for inpatients, Health New Zealand audit finds
An urgent audit found Dannevirke Community Hospital lacks enough clinicians for a safe roster. Tararua Health Group has 30 days to recruit staff.
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Mackenzie Country tourists dodge paid toilets as council weighs charges at Lake Tekapo, Twizel and Fairlie
Tourists in the Mackenzie Country are going to great lengths to avoid paying $1.50 for a toilet, and the district’s ratepayers are cleaning up after them. Mackenzie District Council today…
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Synlait loses $75.4 million but returns to profit in the second half as its dairy factories steady
Canterbury dairy company Synlait Milk has reported a net loss of $75.4 million for the year to 31 July 2026, but says a second-half return to profit shows its long…
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Peter Burling and Luna Rossa beat Team New Zealand again to win the America’s Cup regatta in Naples
Peter Burling has beaten Emirates Team New Zealand for the second time in four months. The former Team New Zealand skipper steered Italy’s Luna Rossa to victory in the match…
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Luxon calls strategic voting an insanely stupid idea as ACT and New Zealand First push back
National leader Christopher Luxon has called strategic voting an “insanely stupid idea”, but his two coalition partners have told him the choice belongs to voters, not to him. The row…
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Job confidence in New Zealand barely lifts from a record low as workers doubt pay rises will keep up
New Zealanders feel only slightly better about their job prospects than they did in the winter, and the three months to June were the gloomiest the country’s workers have been…
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Coroner finds New Zealand’s transport agency knew a State Highway 1 lane near Timaru was slippery before a fatal crash
A coroner has found the New Zealand Transport Agency knew a lane of State Highway 1 south of Timaru was in poor, slippery condition before a truck slid across the…
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Retirement Commissioner asks whether KiwiSaver hardship withdrawals have become too easy in New Zealand
New Zealand’s new Retirement Commissioner, David Boyle, is asking whether KiwiSaver hardship withdrawals have become too easy to get, after almost $1.8 billion left the scheme on hardship grounds between…
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Labour promises to wipe 10% off student loans for graduates who stay in New Zealand
Labour would wipe 10 percent off the student loans of graduates who live in New Zealand, and clear any balance of $2000 or less completely, under a policy Chris Hipkins…
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All Whites beat China 3-0 in Chongqing for their first win since March
The All Whites have beaten China 3-0 in Chongqing, ending a six-month run without a win and keeping their first clean sheet in 15 months. Tyler Bindon, Ben Waine and…
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Four sailors rescued from a life raft after their yacht hits a whale and sinks north of Norfolk Island
Four sailors are safe on board a cargo ship after hours in a life raft in the open Pacific, when their Australian yacht struck a whale and sank about 250…
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Bid-rigging costs New Zealand taxpayers $360 million a year, Commerce Commission estimates
Bid-rigging on government contracts is costing New Zealand taxpayers about $360 million a year, the Commerce Commission estimated on Sunday, and its chair has a blunt warning for the firms…
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Petition calls for Sams Creek to join Kahurangi National Park to end Golden Bay gold mining threat
More than 11,000 people, including Helen Clark, want Sams Creek added to Kahurangi National Park to protect it from gold mining.
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We logged every AI bot on a New Zealand news site for 11 days, and they sent back 194 people
Newswire logged every AI bot request for 11 days. Live retrieval outweighed training, a ChatGPT task polled our tsunami page every half hour, and AI assistants sent back one visitor…
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New Zealand Rugby weighs scrapping Super Rugby and the NPC as it seeks $20 million a year in savings
New Zealand Rugby has put the future of Super Rugby and the NPC on the table as it looks for about $20 million a year in savings, with one of…
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Funeral directors write off thousands to bury New Zealanders who die with nothing and no one
Funeral directors who agree to cremate or bury New Zealanders who die with no money and no one to claim them are writing off thousands of dollars a time, and…
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North Korean worker used fake ID to get remote IT job at a large New Zealand business, cyber report reveals
A North Korean operative used fake identity documents to land remote IT contract work with a large New Zealand business, then threatened to leak commercially sensitive information when the company…
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Black Ferns lose 26-19 to England at Twickenham after a last-play intercept try
The Black Ferns chose to chase a win rather than settle for a draw at Twickenham this morning, and it cost them the match. With the scores locked at 19-all…