Business confidence in the government's economic management has quadrupled since 2023. Yet a quarter of small firms have ...

Undecided voters handed Chris Hipkins the first leaders' debate by a two-to-one margin. The bigger story for business is that ...

Unpaid bills from tourists and migrants have roughly quadrupled in six years, and Health NZ expects to write off a quarter of ...

Labour wants to drop the mandated daily hour of reading, writing and maths just as the first signs of improvement appear. For ...

National wants to swap foreign aid for cancer drugs, and on a voter's kitchen table that looks like an easy call. The bill ...

Petrol at an all-time high is the story households see. The bigger one for business is the diesel-driven cost wave still ...

While retailers count falling volumes, New Zealand's biggest gym operator is committing up to $100 million to open as many as ...

Luxon and Hipkins both ruled out a GST rise in the first leaders' debate. The promise does not cover fuel excise, road user charges or levies. Labour's fuel tax freeze leaves a hole in the roads fund, ...

New Zealand has spent two decades breeding apples for a hotter planet, and the first big orchard to cash in is in Spain. That is not a failure. It is what a genuine IP export business looks like.

A locally built autonomous drone that finds, sizes and sprays individual pines could make the Crown's $109 million weed war go much further. The real story is the falling cost per hectare, not the ...

A farmer-owned co-op that lost its entire China infant formula business in under three years has raised US private equity ...

A dive skipper has walked out of court without a conviction after six years of prosecution, and is now asking who pays for ...