Auckland FC have ended Melbourne City’s A-League title defence in the most dramatic fashion possible, winning their first ever penalty shoot-out at Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday night to book…
New Zealanders’ card spending grew 0.7 percent in the March 2026 quarter, but inflation of 3.1 percent means real volumes fell 2.3 percent — the tenth consecutive quarterly decline.
A growing number of Tauranga families are travelling more than 100 kilometres to Hamilton or Rotorua to cremate their loved ones, with funeral directors collecting bodies from the Bay of…
When the previous commerce minister Scott Simpson stood up in July last year and promised to ban card surcharges in New Zealand by May 2026 at the very latest, the…
About 185 workers at New Zealand’s only aluminium smelter will walk off the job four times next week, in the first significant industrial action at Tiwai Point in years and…
Chris Wood has put New Zealand football back at the very top of the European game, settling one of the most important nights of his Nottingham Forest career on top…
The United States has invited New Zealand to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping passage that has been largely closed since the start of the Middle East…
State Highway 3 through the Awakino Gorge reopens to traffic today for the first time since a severe storm two weeks ago dropped more than 30 slips onto the road,…
A profile of Roy Kerr, the New Zealand mathematician who in 1963 wrote down the equation describing every spinning black hole in the observable universe — and who is still…
The strong claims in climate science don’t need rhetorical scaffolding to support them — but the reflex to attribute everything to climate change is starting to corrode public trust in…
Only five of New Zealand’s 78 territorial authorities delivered a rates increase low enough to meet the government’s proposed annual rates cap of 2 to 4 percent in the most…
From today, every new tap, valve, fitting and water heater installed in a New Zealand home, school, office or hospital must be certified lead-free if it touches drinking water —…
ANZ New Zealand has reported a $1.259 billion net profit after tax for the six months to 31 March, a result the bank’s chief executive has described as solid but…
The Hurricanes have stayed top of the Super Rugby Pacific ladder after a 38-31 win over the defending champion Crusaders in Wellington, holding off a late equaliser attempt and walking…
A deep-dive profile of Beatrice Hill Tinsley, the New Plymouth schoolgirl who founded the modern field of galactic evolution, became Yale’s first woman professor of astronomy, and died at forty…
An albatross blown off course by last week’s ferocious lower North Island storm has been released back into the open ocean off Napier, and two more seabirds caught up in…
A fortnight ago, Shopify quietly rolled out a feature that will reshape New Zealand online retail more than any platform change in the last decade. It is called Agentic Storefronts,…
A widespread mobile and broadband outage knocked out internet and phone services across the entire South Island, Stewart Island and large parts of the lower North Island on Friday morning,…
One of the most senior figures of the last National-led government has publicly told his old party to walk away from NZ First, calling Winston Peters’ party “an excrescence” and…
Auckland FC’s second A-League season comes down to ninety minutes at Go Media Stadium on Saturday, with the third-placed side hosting sixth-placed Melbourne City in a winner-takes-all elimination final that…
New Zealand business confidence has crashed in spectacular fashion, with the ANZ Business Outlook for April 2026 showing a 43-point swing in a single month as firms pulled back from…
Autumn is deepening and the soil is cooling, but May is still one of the busiest months in the Kiwi garden. Here’s what to get in the ground this month…
Hato Hone St John has unveiled New Zealand’s first custom-built paediatric ambulance, a purpose-designed vehicle that will begin shuttling critically ill and injured children between hospitals from next week. Based…
The fourth and final phase of the Mental Health Response Change Programme has been delayed indefinitely. A mental health worker has been assaulted, three emergency calls went unanswered, and the…
Banks approved nearly $1 billion of low-equity mortgages to first-home buyers in March, the most in any month since the Reserve Bank began collecting the data twelve years ago. Reserve…
Liam Lawson will be back in a Formula One car this weekend for the first time in five weeks, and the Hastings driver says he is more than ready for…
Auckland’s early childhood education centres are slashing fees, throwing in meals and in some cases offering an entire year of free care, as operators try to fill empty spots in…
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters held crisis talks in the Beehive on Wednesday night after Peters’ office released internal emails to the New Zealand Herald that…
A deep-dive profile of Charles Upham, the Canterbury sheep farmer who became the only fighting soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice.
For the first time in more than a century, the Otago pakake colony has broken through the 35-pup mark in a single breeding season, with 38 New Zealand sea lion…