Every year in autumn, thousands of young Cook’s petrels leave their nest burrows on island sanctuaries north of Auckland and launch themselves into the night sky for the first time.…
Thousands of eels lie dead on what should be the floor of Pukepuke Lagoon, a wetland between Himatangi and Tangimoana in the Manawatu that has been part of the local…
Wellington distance runner Toby Gualter has claimed his seventh national athletics title after winning the 2026 New Zealand Half Marathon Championship in Christchurch on Sunday, crossing the line in a…
Home and community support workers are calling on the government to send ministers out on the road for a day, after announcing what they describe as an inadequate response to…
Stewart Island, known to Māori as Rakiura, is one of New Zealand’s most remote and beloved communities. Its 480 or so residents share their island with kiwi, dotterel, and some…
New Zealand retailers are pushing for a levy on overseas online shopping platforms such as Temu and Shein, arguing that the unchecked growth of ultra-cheap offshore e-commerce is hollowing out…
A vital public transport service connecting rural King Country communities to Hamilton’s Waikato Hospital will be cancelled later this year, leaving hundreds of passengers facing dramatically higher fares and fewer…
A National MP is pushing for a law change that would ban gang-linked organisations from receiving any taxpayer funding, a move that has sparked debate about whether cutting off such…
A major film and television studio complex near Queenstown has been given the go-ahead under the government’s fast-track approvals process, with developers promising hundreds of jobs and a $280 million…
Auckland FC coach Steve Corica will sit out Sunday’s Anzac Day clash against the Central Coast Mariners after the A-League’s match review panel handed him a one-match suspension for abusing…
Ryan Fox returned from Augusta empty-handed after missing the cut at the Masters by a single shot, as Rory McIlroy wrote himself into the sport’s history books by becoming the…
The government says fuel is flowing. But six fundamental questions remain unanswered, from whether our Asian suppliers will start hoarding to what fuel rationing would actually look like in practice.
New Zealand’s major bank economists have sharply revised their interest rate forecasts, with ANZ now predicting the Reserve Bank will raise the Official Cash Rate three times before the end…
A new answer to the Fermi Paradox. What if the universe has an immune system, and unconstrained civilisational expansion is the cancer it evolved to eliminate?
New Zealand’s intelligence agencies are almost certainly weighing what to share with the United States, a senior former American intelligence official has suggested, as the Five Eyes alliance faces its…
The clean-up from Cyclone Vaianu is under way across the North Island after the storm tracked away from mainland New Zealand, leaving behind flooded homes, blocked roads, and thousands of…
New Zealand’s fuel stocks look stable on paper. But the real danger lies upstream, at the Asian refineries that supply us and the crude oil they can no longer easily…
More than 100 kakapo chicks have hatched in 2026, shattering the previous record and offering new hope for one of the world’s rarest birds.
Fonterra has named Richard Allen as its new Chief Executive Officer, with the appointment taking effect on 1 May 2026. Allen, a company veteran who joined Fonterra as a graduate…
Auckland-headquartered pharmaceutical company AFT Pharmaceuticals has reported record sales for its 2026 financial year, announcing sustained double-digit growth across all of its markets and confirming a new United States distribution…
Two new polls published this week paint an anxious picture for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the National-led coalition, with New Zealand’s general election now just seven months away and…
New Zealand’s ability to understand and predict extreme weather events is being undermined by a wave of funding cuts that have driven specialist climate scientists overseas, researchers are warning. A…
Damian McKenzie has cemented his status as one of the greatest Chiefs players of all time, breaking the franchise’s all-time try-scoring record while also bringing up 1500 Super Rugby points…
New Zealand’s food and fibre sector is on track to deliver a record export year, with the Ministry for Primary Industries forecasting the country’s primary sector exports will reach $62…
New Zealand has a new world champion. Carlos Ulberg, fighting out of Auckland, stopped Jiří Procházka by knockout in the first round at UFC 327 in Miami to claim the…
A Palmerston North GP is raising the alarm over what she describes as a “dire shortage” of specialist staff in the city’s hospital gastroenterology department, warning that patients with serious…
New Zealand sends $8-10 billion overseas every year to buy fuel. Electrifying the vehicle fleet with domestically generated renewable power would eliminate the petrol import bill entirely and keep billions…
The original Think Big built infrastructure that still powers New Zealand 40 years later. With an energy crisis, a fuel crisis, and a $210 billion infrastructure deficit, here are ten…
The political verdict on Muldoon’s Think Big was devastating. But 40 years later, the Clyde Dam still generates electricity, Methanex still exports methanol, NZ Steel still makes steel, and the…
New Zealand has a $210 billion infrastructure deficit. Core Crown spending grew 67 percent in six years, but billions went to restructuring programmes that were reversed, consultants, and bureaucratic expansion…