Māori wardens who have guarded the closed Mount Maunganui cordon since the January landslide say they have been spat at and had bottles thrown at them, as Tauranga City Council…
Customs Minister Casey Costello has cut the Border Processing Levy on arriving cruise passengers from $27.14 to $7.20 from 1 July 2027, partly reversing a 2024 increase the cruise industry…
The All Blacks beat the Wallabies 43-21 in Sydney to sweep the 2026 Bledisloe Cup series, finishing with 13 men as injuries mounted.
New Zealanders have until midnight on Sunday 25 October to enrol to vote in the general election, and for the first time in several elections there will be no second…
Police have received more than 4,600 reports of stalking and harassment in the five months since New Zealand’s standalone stalking offence came into force, according to figures released to 1News…
Auckland precision fermentation start-up Daisy Lab has been bought by British biotech Mycofeast for an undisclosed sum. The research team stays in Parnell, but the proteins will be made at…
Northland beat Otago 38-19 in Whangarei on Friday night to reach their first NPC final in the competition’s 50-year history, with Marcel Renata scoring twice and Rivez Reihana kicking 18…
The Green Party has promised a universal $380 a week for student nurses, teachers, social workers and 20 other professions on compulsory placements, plus a $1,500 relocation payment, at a…
Rocket Lab has pushed the first flight of its Neutron rocket into 2027 after inspectors found tiny air pockets inside a freshly cured carbon composite dome for the rocket’s first…
The Waitākere Ranges Local Board has voted unanimously to let Piha’s campground reopen for summer, rejecting staff advice that overnight camping on the floodplain should end for good.
Shopify has switched on tools that let AI agents read, update and complete the checkout on every one of its stores, with no merchant configuration. Roger McSaveney on what that…
The Kiwis came within four minutes of ending Australia’s 11-year unbeaten run at home before a debut hat-trick from Kangaroos winger Jack Bostock snatched a 24-22 win in the opening…
Cameron Brewer has declined a safeguard measure against cheap aluminium extrusion imports from China. Extruders and the E tū union say around 1,000 jobs in Hamilton, New Plymouth and Wellington…
Chris Hipkins told a conference of more than 600 local government and industry leaders in Rotorua on Thursday that local government has been made a scapegoat for the Government’s own…
New Zealand businesses could cut the cost of accepting debit card payments by more than half if their customers paid straight from their bank accounts instead, the Commerce Commission estimates,…
Christopher Luxon told Greymouth supporters he will work with whoever he has to for a second term, hours after David Seymour said a four-party coalition with Opportunity would be a…
Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland has delayed 20 rounds of chemotherapy over the past four months because it does not have enough nurses to run its cancer ward safely, Health…
King Country plays its first Meads Cup final on Saturday, meeting defending champions Mid Canterbury in Ashburton for the Heartland Championship trophy named after Sir Colin Meads.
New Zealand’s new super-ministry MCERT wants to cut 400 roles, a quarter of its staff, with consultation closing four days before the 7 November election. Labour says it would halt…
The Wellington commuter train that smashed into a concrete stop block at Khandallah in June passed a red departure signal, its emergency brake came on in the same second, and…
Costco has won fast-track referral for its first South Island store on a 17.68ha site beside Christchurch Airport, with officials forecasting 486 jobs. Consent is still to come.
A Kaikōura motel operator that treated its housekeeper as a casual on-call worker for nearly 16 months, without ever giving her a written employment agreement, has lost its Employment Court…
Earth Sciences New Zealand forecasts seven to eleven named cyclones for the Southwest Pacific this season as a strong El Niño builds, with New Zealand’s risk rated normal and greatest…
Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins both told a Herald debate audience on Wednesday night that they have never lied in politics, then spent the next hour and a half accusing…
Creditors asked the High Court to wind up 1,072 New Zealand companies in the first nine months of 2026, more than in any full calendar year from 2017 to 2023,…
Tall Black Carlin Davison produced the best night of his Australian NBL career on Wednesday as the New Zealand Breakers beat the defending champion Sydney Kings 102-101 in Canberra, holding…
The Government has settled on a preferred company to build and run New Zealand’s first liquefied natural gas import terminal at Port Taranaki, but it did not announce the decision.…
Labour’s 2026 economic plan would redirect up to $50 million a year of the Government’s NZ Super Fund contribution into the Elevate venture capital fund. National says the recovery is…
SkyCity, the TAB, Entain, Betway’s owner and Stake are among 11 entities that won a government auction for the right to apply for New Zealand’s first online casino licences, with…
New Zealand’s brief taste of summer is over. A slow-moving front has stalled over the South Island, putting Buller under an orange heavy rain warning, lining up severe gales for…