The Crusaders settled their long account with the Blues on Friday night, running out 36-20 winners at a sold-out Te Kaha after trailing at halftime, with prop George Bower scoring…
Auckland start up Kara Technologies is nearing the public launch of an AI sign language platform that will translate everyday announcements into New Zealand Sign Language using a hyper realistic…
The coalition government will scrap the fees-free university scheme in the Budget on 28 May, with New Zealand First leader Winston Peters revealing the decision in what he called a…
Charlisse Leger-Walker takes the court for the Connecticut Sun this morning in what amounts to the most consequential moment in the history of New Zealand women’s basketball. The 24-year-old point…
The Commerce Commission has given the green light to one of the biggest shake ups in the New Zealand fuel retail market in more than a decade, granting clearance on…
A deep-dive profile of Nancy Wake — the Wellington-born journalist who became the most decorated servicewoman of the Second World War, an SOE agent in occupied France, and one of…
Tens of thousands of New Zealand university students have had their personal details swept up in a global hack of the learning platform Canvas, leaving lecture materials and assignment portals…
Demand for rooftop solar has surged about 400 percent over the past three to four months as the fuel crisis pushes households to look for ways out of the petrol…
Rocket Lab Corporation, the launch and space systems company founded in Auckland by Sir Peter Beck, has delivered the largest quarter in its history, posting US$200.3 million in revenue for…
Moana Pasifika will run out at North Harbour Stadium on Saturday night carrying more than just the weight of a 10-match losing streak. The Auckland-based Super Rugby Pacific franchise is…
The New Zealand Law Society has warned that the Government’s Policing Amendment Bill, introduced by Police Minister Mark Mitchell, contains powers so loosely drafted that they could quietly drift from…
MetService orange warnings stretch from Westland to Canterbury and across the Nelson ranges as a deepening low brings 220mm of rain and gusts to 140km/h, with Tākaka Hill already recording…
The Tauranga City Council has seized two dogs after they attacked a well-known community horse on Pāpāmoa Beach earlier this week, in an assault so prolonged that rider Tai Nelson…
The Blues will travel to Christchurch tonight knowing the history is against them and the playoff seedings are not. Patrick Tuipulotu’s side has won just one of its last 15…
A 140 year old postal counter and book shop in Linwood will close in the coming weeks after a long community campaign to keep it open ran out of road,…
New Zealand first home buyers picked up 24,800 properties over the past 12 months, the highest annual total since the third quarter of 2021 and a sign that the country’s…
Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop has committed to a full post-completion review of Auckland’s City Rail Link after the project’s former chief executive said the $5.5 billion scheme could have been…
The Supreme Court has handed Danish toy giant Lego a fresh chance to reverse its New Zealand defeat at the hands of Zuru, the Auckland born plastic brick maker run…
A new $1.7 million youth mental health respite service will open in Northland by the end of 2026, in response to a coroner’s findings that fragmented agencies and stretched clinicians…
The Electoral Commission has released its 2025 party donations and loans report, showing the National Party pulled in $6,275,234 in declared donations across the calendar year, comfortably more than every…
Dame Lisa Carrington will not line up in the K4 500m for New Zealand at the opening Canoe Sprint World Cup regatta in Szeged this weekend, with Aimee Fisher stepping…
A deep-dive profile of Jean Batten, the Rotorua-born aviator who broke a string of solo flying records in the 1930s, became the most famous New Zealander in the world, and…
A deep-dive profile of Bruce McLaren, the limping Auckland boy who became the youngest Formula One winner in history at twenty-two, founded a racing team in his mid-twenties, and was…
Comvita has formally closed its pro rata renounceable rights offer today, having cleared the $25 million minimum threshold needed to unlock a refinancing package and put one of New Zealand’s…
An 11-year-old girl in full school uniform was left standing on an Auckland footpath this week after bus drivers from two separate services refused to let her board because she…
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission has released its final report into the Interislander ferry Kaitaki blackout in Cook Strait on 28 January 2023, finding that 864 lives were placed at…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released its 2026 Economic Survey of New Zealand on Thursday, calling on the country to push through energy market reform, deepen its capital…
After 19 months of industrial action, ratification ballots and one of the most public health-sector disputes in years, New Zealand’s senior hospital doctors have finally settled with Health New Zealand.…
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced New Zealand’s 35th round of sanctions against Russia, targeting 20 individuals and entities tied to cybercrime, anti-Ukraine propaganda and a cryptocurrency network that Western…
A pair of senior takahē have made the long journey from Fiordland to the capital, settling into what Zealandia is calling a peaceful retirement at the fenced sanctuary above Karori.…