The Black Caps have started their three-match T20 international series in Bangladesh with a heavy loss in Chattogram, going down by six wickets to a home side that produced its…
A Christchurch couple have taken Kmart to the Disputes Tribunal over sand sold for children to play with that later turned out to contain asbestos, in a case that could…
Auckland’s industrial and commercial land has hit its highest price on record, with average values climbing to $1,190 a square metre in the year to March, according to fresh data…
Submissions close tomorrow on a government immigration bill that critics say borrows from the playbook of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, with an Auckland immigration lawyer warning…
A 12-year-old’s after-school habit of poking around the creek behind his house has put one of New Zealand’s rarest native frogs on the map several hundred kilometres south of where…
The local state of emergency for Ōhura has been lifted, one week after floodwaters tore through the small Ruapehu settlement, damaged around 50 homes and forced residents to wade through…
A deep dive into one of aviation’s most stubborn debates. Some nine months before Kitty Hawk, a reclusive South Canterbury farmer named Richard Pearse pushed a bamboo-and-canvas contraption onto a…
A Queenstown community group is demanding more transparency from local authorities after monitoring data from the Shotover River showed E. coli concentrations eight times the consented annual average and almost…
Austrian-based energy company OMV has signalled that production at New Zealand’s largest gas field, the Maui field off the Taranaki coast, is expected to wind up at the end of…
About 140 community and district nurses employed by Access Community Health have ratified a new two-year collective agreement, winning a six per cent pay increase after six months of bargaining…
Rail Minister Winston Peters on Thursday opened the upgraded Waltham Mechanical Hub in Christchurch and unveiled the first of 66 new DM Class locomotives for KiwiRail, marking the most visible…
Christchurch’s brand new One New Zealand Stadium at Te Kaha hosted its first Super Rugby Pacific Super Round across the Anzac weekend, and by every measure the experiment paid off.…
Each spring the bar-tailed godwit lands in New Zealand half-dead after the longest non-stop flight of any animal on Earth. A small, devoted community of New Zealanders has built their…
NZ’s Free Trade Agreements with China (2008) and the CPTPP (2018) have been a net win for the country — but exports to China rose tenfold while food prices at…
For rural school communities across New Zealand, the fuel crisis is no abstract economic headline. It shows up in the daily calculation of whether a family can afford the petrol…
Sam Ruthe turned 16 years old on 12 April, just two weeks ago. He is already the best under-20 middle distance runner in the world. The Tauranga-raised teenager has spent…
New Zealanders aged over 50 are bearing the brunt of insurance cost increases, with new data showing their premiums have risen up to 35 percent over three years while younger…
The Police Commissioner has sought formal explanations after recruit numbers at the Royal New Zealand Police College fell well below expected levels, raising fresh doubts about the coalition government’s flagship…
The day after Anzac Day is often a quieter moment of reflection, but the commemorations that have just passed carry a story that stretches far beyond Gallipoli. For the medieval…
The New Zealand Warriors have staged one of the comebacks of their 2026 season, clawing back from 14 points down to defeat the Dolphins 20-18 in front of a sold-out…
New Zealand employers are increasingly turning to casual work arrangements rather than committing to permanent staff, with the number of casual job listings on the Seek platform jumping 59 percent…
The New Zealand government is pushing ahead with negotiations for a bilateral critical minerals agreement with the United States, with Resources Minister Shane Jones directing officials to resume work on…
New Zealand’s farming sector is bracing for a painful cost season as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East disrupts global fertiliser supply chains, threatening to push on-farm inflation to…
Storms striking the North Island overnight and into Friday morning triggered landslips north of Auckland and in the Coromandel, forced at least 18 households to evacuate, shut major roads, and…
No-take marine reserves dramatically restore fish populations inside their boundaries. The promised spillover into adjacent fished water is real but small. An honest look at the Leigh and Tāwharanui evidence…
Who catches what, who bears cuts, who benefits. An interactive explorer of the SNA1 Total Allowable Catch, the commercial-recreational split, and the recurring allocation debate. Updated when MPI publishes new…
Twenty years of NOAA satellite daily SST data for the outer Hauraki Gulf. Mean temperature up 0.55°C in the last decade. Days above 22°C up eightfold. The numbers, charted.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has cancelled his regular weekly appearances on TVNZ’s Breakfast programme, announcing the change on Friday afternoon as his party simultaneously filed a formal complaint against the…
New Zealand’s women’s team pursuit squad has claimed back-to-back gold medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Nilai, Malaysia — and they did it without their star rider…
The sale of small and medium-sized New Zealand businesses has hit a record high, with 514 transactions completed in the year ended March 2026 — the highest number since business…