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Chris Ship intentionally used a swear word live on ITV news during a bulletin about New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern. The journalist said it's not a word that would normally be allowed to be broadcast before he went ahead and said it

The EV manufacturer took its entire range of vehicles to New Zealand in summer to do winter testing and it really tested them thoroughly... by going sideways.

There were nearly 300 water engineer positions advertised on recruitment website Seek last month. The high demand for these specialist engineers bodes ill for the government’s Three Waters reform, which will rely heavily on experts the country currently doesn’t have in the required numbers.

Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tonnes of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of palm-oil processing in Indonesia and Malaysia, to feed dairy cows, at a cost of NZ$800 million.

The Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list for the year, described by Steve Braunias.

Two prime ministers meeting to discuss relations between their countries is standard practice in international politics. But New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern and Finland’s Sanna Marin had to defend a recent summit after a reporter asked whether they met because they are both young, female leaders.

The Christmas period is here with a traditional sack-full of sport to enjoy.

New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta on Thursday said she was aware of the situation unfolding in Fiji and encouraged all parties to allow the constitution process to play out.

When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was caught on a hot mic using a vulgarity against a rival politician last week, it seemed the nation’s politics could be taking an ugly turn heading into an election year