The Opportunity Party is heading into the 2026 general election under new leader Qiulae Wong with a deliberately ambiguous coalition pitch, telling voters it would work with either a Labour…
Few peoples on earth have an origin story as well attested, as recently dated, and as scientifically dramatic as Māori. The ancestors of every Māori living today crossed thousands of…
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealand savers could be earning a tiny fraction of the headline rate advertised on their everyday savings account, with two well-known banking voices this week…
Two Tasman dogs at the centre of a long running fur seal mauling case have been saved from a destruction order after the High Court overturned the convictions imposed on…
Josh Moorby produced a four-try masterclass at North Harbour Stadium on Saturday night as the Hurricanes blew Moana Pasifika away in sheets of Albany rain, running out 50-17 winners to…
Mayors around New Zealand are pulling in different directions on the government’s council amalgamation ultimatum, with some moving quickly to lead their own reorganisation and others digging in or asking…
Three years after Cyclone Gabrielle ripped silt, logs and forestry slash through the Tairāwhiti region, new research from Lincoln University has found that the central recommendations of the 2023 ministerial…
Wellington Airport has wrapped up its biggest infrastructure programme in a decade and is now physically equipped to take direct long-haul flights, but the cost of getting there has shown…
WordPress 7.0 lands on Tuesday 20 May, five days after this column publishes, and for the roughly 43 percent of websites built on WordPress globally it is the most significant…
Six people were rescued from vehicles trapped in floodwaters on State Highway 6 near Canvastown on Friday night as a powerful storm system swept across the top of the South…
Maritime New Zealand will cut more than 30 roles across harm prevention, investigations, legal, policy and finance teams to close a revenue shortfall, with the regulator’s director telling staff this…
The Highlanders held off a furious second-half comeback from the Waratahs to win 31-26 at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday night, surviving most of the closing quarter with only 14…
New Zealand’s largest international tourism business event, TRENZ, returns to Auckland next week for the first time in nearly a decade, with around 1,200 delegates expected at the New Zealand…
The Olive Press, the Wairarapa family business that has pressed olive oil for growers across the lower North Island for 27 years, is being wound up after its shareholders concluded…
Auckland FC will travel to Adelaide on Friday with the A-League grand final still within reach but plenty to ponder, after a 1-1 draw with Adelaide United at Go Media…
Palmerston North Hospital’s gastroenterology department is down to a single permanent specialist, and that doctor is leaving next month, according to RNZ reporting on Saturday. The service is funded for…
The Parliamentary Service has told MPs that their use of available security support has been underwhelming, even as it confirms a steady increase in threats and abuse against elected representatives…
Born on a butcher’s block in Pongaroa in 1916, Maurice Wilkins helped enrich the uranium that levelled Hiroshima, took the first sharp X-ray photographs of crystalline DNA, shared the 1962…
State Highway 3 through the Awakino Gorge is open this weekend, on continuous one-lane convoys running day and night between New Plymouth and Te Kūiti. The Saturday-and-Sunday window is the…
A small Hokianga community has switched on the country’s first municipal electrocoagulation sewage plant, ending a campaign that hapū say has run across several generations. The plant at Rāwene was…
Finn Allen has produced the innings of his career, blasting an unbeaten 100 from just 47 balls as Kolkata Knight Riders crushed Delhi Capitals by eight wickets at the Arun…
Auckland Council and Auckland Transport have begun consulting staff on the biggest reshape of the city’s transport bureaucracy in 15 years, with about 180 roles proposed for disestablishment, an estimated…
Regulation Minister David Seymour has signalled fresh changes to Radio New Zealand’s board and senior management, drawing legal pushback from constitutional law professor Andrew Geddis and a sharp rebuke from…
Christchurch astrophotographer Tom Rae has won the Capture the Atlas Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition for the third time, this time with a long, cold night above Lake…
A complete taxidermied huia, one of New Zealand’s most evocative extinct birds, will go under the hammer at Webb’s Auction House in Auckland on Monday with a price guide that…
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has lodged what the government is calling the most significant rewrite of conservation law in nearly four decades, with the Conservation Amendment Bill introduced this week…
Yili Oceania, the New Zealand arm of China’s largest dairy company, has reported its strongest year on record, with combined pre-tax profit across its five local operating companies climbing to…
Migrants who have been holding off on becoming New Zealand citizens are accelerating their applications after the government announced a new in person citizenship test that will apply to anyone…
Hōkawai Beach near Ōpōtiki has produced an unusual sight for the second time in a week, with a live yellow-bellied sea snake found stretched out on the sand by a…
Reserve Bank Governor Anna Breman has told New Zealanders the country’s financial system can absorb the shocks now rolling out of the Middle East, but the recovery from three flat…