Spark has abandoned its plan to replace New Zealand’s public phone booths with modern kiosks offering free calls, Wi-Fi and phone charging, and will pull out the remaining booths over…
Canterbury held off a Taranaki fightback to win their NPC semi-final 38-28 in Christchurch and will host Northland in the final on Labour Day Monday, the first weekday decider in…
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon chose 7 November as New Zealand’s election day even though the Electoral Commission rated two nearby dates as easier to run, according to official advice reported…
New Zealand gained 20,500 people through migration in the year to August 2026, double the gain a year earlier, but the loss of its own citizens is still running at…
Half of the senior doctors in the emergency department at Wairau Hospital in Blenheim have gone public with a warning that the department is close to collapse, and a day…
SkyCity has signed a binding $221 million agreement to sell The Grand Hotel in Auckland, pushing its asset sales past target days before its annual meeting.
National has promised a new crime of staying silent about the killing of a child, carrying up to 10 years in prison, and within a day defence lawyers were calling…
The Silver Ferns have opened the 2026 Constellation Cup with a 56-50 win over Australia at Spark Arena in Auckland on Sunday night, handing the Diamonds their 11th straight test…
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…