New Zealand Rugby has ended a slow-burning succession question, confirming on Thursday that interim chief executive Steve Lancaster will take the role on a permanent basis. The decision settles a…
Migrants applying for New Zealand citizenship will from late 2026 have to pass a new written test on the country’s laws, rights and democratic institutions, with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon…
Channel Infrastructure has lifted its full-year underlying profit guidance for 2026 to a range of $97 million to $105 million, telling shareholders at its annual meeting in Auckland that the…
The replacement walkway designed to reconnect pedestrians and cyclists across Te Awa Kairangi Hutt River has hit a serious engineering snag, with KiwiRail confirming the proposed clip-on structure is too…
The South Island’s western flank is preparing for one of the wettest weeks of the autumn after MetService issued orange heavy rain warnings stretching from northwest of Motueka down to…
New Zealand now holds only 38 days of petroleum stock inside its own borders, and the rest of the country’s strategic fuel reserve sits in warehouses and tank farms in…
This week marks two decades since New Zealand Sign Language joined English and te reo Māori as one of Aotearoa’s three official languages, and the Deaf community is using NZSL…
Documents released under the Official Information Act show Fisheries Minister Shane Jones pushed for a $50,000 maximum fine for anyone who leaks footage from on-board fishing boat cameras, five times…
Central Districts batting all-rounder Dean Foxcroft has earned his maiden Black Caps test call-up as New Zealand named a 19-strong squad for the upcoming tour of Ireland and England, with…
A coalition of unions, human rights advocates and four named workers has lodged a formal complaint with the United Nations over the Government’s 2025 changes to New Zealand’s pay equity…
Finance companies in New Zealand have lifted their residential mortgage lending by more than 30 percent in the nine months since the country’s first deposit guarantee took effect, the Reserve…
In a season already being called the largest in the documented history of the kākāpō recovery programme, Department of Conservation rangers have added one more chick to the official tally…
The Government has announced a $180 million package to expand publicly funded healthcare across the Otago Central Lakes, in a move local advocates say is long overdue but will need…
New Zealand’s unemployment rate ticked down to 5.3 percent in the March 2026 quarter, slightly better than economist forecasts but coming alongside the slowest annual wage growth in five years…
Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith has announced the government will scrap the Broadcasting Standards Authority and replace the 37-year-old statutory regulator with a self-regulation model similar to the one…
Mainland Tactix wing defence Paris Lokotui has confirmed she is leaving netball for rugby, with the 23-year-old relocating to Christchurch and joining the Canterbury Farah Palmer Cup wider squad. The…
CDC Data Centres, the Australian operator nearly half-owned by NZX-listed infrastructure investor Infratil, has signed a 30-year contract with a United States investment-grade customer to build what will become Australia’s…
A new University of Auckland review of 58 international studies has found that 81 percent of them link higher or problematic screen use in children with weaker attention, planning and…
The New Zealand Transport Agency has restored $18 million in road policing funding to police after determining that breath testing targets were met for the first three quarters of the…
The All Whites have locked in their final preparation schedule before next month’s FIFA World Cup, with two friendlies in Florida against Haiti and England the only competitive run-outs before…
A deep-dive profile of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, the New Zealander from Thames who ran the air defence of London in 1940 and the air defence of Malta…
The Aratere fine moves money from one Crown ledger to another while the underfunding that probably caused the grounding is untouched. The decision makers face no consequence.
ANZ Bank New Zealand has lost a long-running class action in the High Court, leaving the country’s largest bank facing potential liability of up to $125 million for failing to…
Construction of a new $11.2 million wetland system on the southern edge of Lake Horowhenua has finally broken ground near Levin, in what Horizons Regional Council is calling a major…
Local Government Minister Simon Watts and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop have given New Zealand’s 78 councils three months to come up with their own amalgamation proposals or have one…
IKEA’s Sylvia Park store opened on 4 December 2025. Five months on, it has rewritten the spending map for the country’s biggest retail catchment. Mt Wellington, which used to share…
KiwiRail has been fined $375,000 over the 2024 grounding of the Interislander ferry Aratere in Picton Harbour, with Maritime New Zealand pointing to a clear knowledge gap in the bridge…
A live yellow-bellied sea snake washed up on Ōhope Beach in the Bay of Plenty over the weekend, prompting the Department of Conservation to remind beachgoers to keep well clear…
The raw profit figures are damning enough. The return-on-equity numbers are sharper. Every single Big Four NZ subsidiary earns a materially higher return on capital than its own Australian parent,…
Auckland Hospital’s dialysis service is running at 150 percent capacity, with some patients now finishing their life-sustaining treatment as late as 11pm three nights a week, according to a new…