New Zealand Rugby has stepped up its fight with the NRL over the name of rugby league’s newest club, the Papua New Guinea Chiefs, arguing the Waikato Super Rugby franchise…
New Zealand’s worst flu season in a decade has passed its peak, with hospital admissions for flu-like illness falling sharply in the latest national figures. But doctors are warning the…
The average price of 91 unleaded petrol in New Zealand reached $3.25 a litre on Friday, and the Automobile Association says motorists should not expect much relief before Christmas. The…
ACT has promised to block any break-up of New Zealand’s big power companies and to let households sell the electricity from their solar panels to whoever pays the best price,…
Buildings of unlimited height could rise across most of central Auckland under a Government proposal released on Friday 18 September, but one of the city’s best-known apartment developers says the…
Victoria Lake, South Rolleston Avenue and two Avon River sites are on the shortlist for a national memorial to the 51 people killed in the 2019 mosque attacks.
All Blacks prop Tamaiti Williams has described how an antibiotic-resistant superbug that took hold in his spine left doctors warning he could end up in a wheelchair, in his most…
Police in New Zealand will soon be able to order people to leave a public place for up to 24 hours after Parliament passed the Government’s move-on orders law under…
The inner Hauraki Gulf reaches the 16 degree feeding mark and the 18 degree spawning mark on dates we can now put numbers on, from 41 springs of satellite data,…
All Whites defender Liberato Cacace has lost his driving licence for six months after admitting six speeding offences on the same stretch of road in Wales, all committed within weeks…
The Reserve Bank has set out three possible futures for New Zealand banking by 2035, ranging from today’s big banks simply getting better to a world where much of your…
New Zealand Police issued 918 stalking and harassment notices and laid 140 charges in the first three months of the country’s new stalking law, according to figures released by police…
Retirement villages will have to repay departing residents or their families within nine months, and hand over 10 per cent of what is owed within four weeks, under changes the…
All 16 staff at Pahiatua Medical Centre say they will resign on 16 October unless the primary health organisation widens its review of how the clinic is managed.
A flaw in a reporting tool exposed New Zealand payroll data in September. Most business websites run code nobody is checking, and the Privacy Act still makes it your responsibility.
Canterbury reclaimed first place on ASB’s June quarter Regional Economic Scoreboard on the back of a Fonterra payout and the strongest retail growth in the country, while Wellington and Gisborne…
Police in Auckland have admitted that a staff member used artificial intelligence to alter a photograph before it went on an official police Facebook page, and that the edit changed…
The New Zealand Breakers will open their NBL season on Sunday with a player who was not on the roster at the start of the week, after a torn hamstring…
The Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill passed its third reading on Thursday night, giving the Youth Court power to send 14 to 17-year-olds to military-style academies.
Pay offered in advertised government jobs has risen 10% in a year, the fastest increase for the category since February 2018, while advertised pay across the wider job market is…
New Zealand’s best road cyclists are paying their own way to the world championships in Canada next week, and one of them has publicly questioned why. Finn Fisher-Black, the 24-year-old…
The Surron Light Bee 2 is on pre-order in New Zealand at $10,490 with stock due late 2026. What the 24kW electric dirt bike is and where you can legally…
In 1944 New Zealanders rode the trams 133 times a year each. A scroll through 160 years of official records shows how ships, trains, trams, cars and planes rose and…
The Karori house where Katherine Mansfield spent what her biographers describe as the happiest years of her childhood is for sale. Chesney Wold, at 372 Karori Road in Wellington, is…
New Zealand’s economy kept growing through the fuel price shock of the June quarter, with a burst of house building doing much of the lifting while hospitality, accommodation and road…
Dame Noeline Taurua will coach the Silver Ferns through to the 2027 Netball World Cup in Sydney, Netball New Zealand announced on Thursday, six weeks after she led the team…
New Zealand’s free trade agreement with India has passed into law, clearing its third reading 93 votes to 29 after Parliament put the bill through its final stages under urgency…
The Government has launched a $1.6 million anti-methamphetamine campaign called F. Meth, a deliberately blunt second attempt at reaching New Zealanders before they start using the drug, after its first…
A select committee report tells the Government to review Fire and Emergency’s board and whether it should buy its own fire trucks.
The cost of living is the biggest worry for Māori voters by a wide margin, and seven in 10 think the Government is doing a poor job of running the…