The Latest Breaking News from NZ

The homeware retailer writes to 500 staff and 'hundreds of thousands' of customers to reassure them it's not impacted by US namesake's threatened bankruptcy. Jonathan Milne reports.

Tokyo’s dramatic and hawkish turn towards defence in the face of China's growing influence is likely to have ramifications for New Zealand. Geoffrey Miller explains. 

The Breakers confirmed their NBL title credentials after surviving a late scare from the 36ers.

Hanging out at the beach, body surfing, boogie boarding or just cooling off in frothy waves under a hot sun are all part of a typical Kiwi summer.

Should NZ rely on its own water infrastructure model? Should we give future generations a local pūkeko or an imported partridge? Credit agencies are watching like hawks.

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.

Immigration New Zealand’s recent announcement that all medical doctors would be included on the straight-to-residence pathway doesn’t quite give the full picture. In fact, “all” only includes those doctors who can have their medical registration approved before coming to New Zealand.

It’s that time of year when school and university students eagerly (or nervously) await their end-of-year results – but also an opportunity to see where the country in general might have passed or failed.

A family owned, South Otago-based logging company has become the first in NZ to import an electric-diesel harvester. It’s saved them a pack of money too, reports Nikki Mandow

Globally and locally there’s uncertainty in the commercial real estate sector. Interest rates and inflation are rising, and organisations are still working out what their offices will look like in a post-Covid world. BNZ’s Phil Bennett ponders seven likely trends for 2023 | Content partnership