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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
More than 11,000 people, including Helen Clark, want Sams Creek added to Kahurangi National Park to protect it from gold mining.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New Zealand First says it will abolish the Waitangi Tribunal and replace it with a temporary body that finishes off historical Treaty claims and then shuts down, a pledge Winston…
New Zealand Police declined to charge their own staff 13 times in the past three years after the Independent Police Conduct Authority recommended charges be laid, according to Ministry of…
Counties Manukau have taken the Ranfurly Shield from Northland in one of the upsets of the provincial rugby season, winning 22-19 at Semenoff Stadium in Whangārei on Saturday afternoon with…
World of WearableArt has cancelled two performances of its 2026 Wellington season after a crew member died at TSB Arena on Friday morning. The organisers also had to change how…
The ACT Party wants to put roadside noise cameras on New Zealand streets to catch loud cars and boy racers, and it would raise the fine for a noisy engine…
Police removed five Greenpeace protesters from the government-owned research ship Tangaroa in Wellington Harbour on Saturday, after activists boarded the vessel to protest its survey work for an American company…
Tennis Auckland has appointed Fabritecture to build the fabric roof over the Manuka Doctor Arena centre court, due by July 2027 and first used at the 2028 ASB Classic.
ANZ New Zealand has told its technology staff it wants to cut more than 100 permanent jobs, in a restructure that could move the bank’s software testing work to an…
MetService has orange warnings for Canterbury snow, 120 km/h gales in Wellington, Wairarapa and southern Hawke’s Bay, and heavy rain in the Tararua Range on Sunday.
The Antarctic ozone hole reached 27.4 million square kilometres in September 2026, its largest in about 20 years, and Otago researchers predicted it in May.
Santana Minerals has put another $10 million on the table for Central Otago’s lizards as it tries to win fast-track approval for its Bendigo-Ophir gold mine, and the date for…
Charlisse Leger-Walker has finished her first season in the WNBA the way few rookies get to, on the court for a win in a sold-out arena on a night of…
New Zealand First says it will campaign on cutting the company tax rate from 28 percent to 20 percent for every company with turnover under $30 million, a policy the…