Auckland’s autumn property market has fallen flat. Barfoot & Thompson, the agency that handles roughly a third of all residential sales across the country’s biggest housing market, sold 688 properties…
The ACT Party has proposed letting any rural child board a passing school bus when there are empty seats, a change MP Andrew Hoggard says would stop families from running…
New Zealand and Singapore have signed a binding agreement promising not to impose export restrictions on each other’s essential supplies during global supply shocks, in what officials are calling the…
The Interislander has almost doubled its fuel surcharge on every commercial vehicle and truck crossing the Cook Strait, in a move that lands squarely on the supermarket invoice and will…
The Black Sticks women have ended their week-long Changzhou Invitational campaign in fourth place after going down 1-0 to host nation China A in the bronze medal playoff on Tuesday.…
New Zealand has been talking about a bottle deposit scheme for the better part of two decades, and it is back at Parliament again. NZ First MP Jamie Arbuckle introduced…
Mount Maunganui will be closed to walkers for up to another four months while restoration crews repair the slopes that gave way in January. Work began on the maunga —…
The chair of the Financial Markets Authority has resigned after an independent investigation found that his public commentary on the Treaty Principles Bill breached the standards of political neutrality expected…
New Zealand has crossed the rooftop solar tipping point — the moment where most households who put panels on the roof now save more money over the life of the…
Liam Lawson’s Miami return ended with smoke, sparks and a flipped Alpine on the inside of Turn 17, after a sudden gearbox failure left the Hastings-born driver with no gears…
It’s a toss up between Robert Muldoon and Grant Robertson. Different eras, different failures, the same end result — both left the country materially worse off than they found it.
Between 1999 and 2008, Helen Clark and Michael Cullen took New Zealand’s net Crown debt from 22% of GDP to zero. They used the surpluses to build KiwiSaver and the…
The first two articles in this series set out the problem and the lever. The third asks the question that follows naturally. The country had the money to capitalise Kiwibank…
In 2024, the four Australian-owned banks earned a combined $6.5 billion in New Zealand. The rest of the Deloitte Top 200 — every supermarket, exporter and utility added together —…
From the start of term three on 1 July, Wellington children with the highest mobility and safety needs will be picked up for school in a different vehicle, by a…
Anyone who grew up in New Zealand in the 1990s probably remembers the slow, warm voice of Suzy Cato asking a small puppet a question and then waiting — actually…
A new piece of housing has quietly opened in the centre of Masterton that does something most of New Zealand’s affordable rental stock cannot. It feels like home from the…
If you have a clear western sky and an hour to spare after sunset this week, you can look at something no other human being has ever knowingly seen. Comet…
Amazon’s New Zealand cloud arm has taken a roughly $45 million hit after walking away from a planned hyperscale data centre in West Auckland, newly filed accounts show — a…
A small Taupō factory is about to do something New Zealand fertiliser has never been built on at home before — make controlled-release nitrogen pellets using heat pulled straight out…
New Zealand exporters could be in line for as much as $1 billion in refunded United States tariffs, but the path to actually banking that money is anything but automatic.…
A leaked industry report calling for tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks for horse racing has thrown an uncomfortable spotlight on NZ First’s donor base, after it emerged…
The Wellington Phoenix women face a one-goal climb at Porirua Park next Sunday after Brisbane Roar struck twice from corners to take a 2-1 lead in the first leg of…
Tekapo has five bottle stores. The town has 5,800 people. That ratio — one outlet for every 1,160 residents — is the highest in New Zealand, and the moment you…
Drive State Highway 3 between Te Kūiti and New Plymouth and you’ll pass through small towns that, a generation ago, had two petrol stations each. Most now have one. A…
For the first time in a generation, the conversation around the Warriors isn’t about whether they’ll make the eight — it’s about how far they can go once they get…
Whangārei’s most photographed piece of infrastructure is about to go quiet for a weekend. Te Matau a Pohe, the only rolling bascule bridge in New Zealand and one of fewer…
The oil shock that has rattled New Zealand household budgets since the Iran war broke out has produced an unlikely set of winners inside the country’s $130 billion KiwiSaver system.…
David Seymour has unveiled a six-point ACT party immigration platform that would make permanent residents deportable for serious crimes no matter how long they have been in New Zealand, charge…
The NZ Warriors have powered to the top of the NRL ladder for the first time in 2026, putting Parramatta Eels to the sword 36-14 in Sydney on Saturday night…