Fed Farmers’ oral and written submissions on the fast-track bill contain no definitive indication of the group’s support. Board member Mark Hooper clarifies.

The Supreme Court rejects a bid to argue a Chinese New Zealander convicted of lying to the SFO did so for cultural reasons ...

NZ Post’s bid to buy a rival’s courier contracts has hit a stumbling block, with the regulator concerned about anticompetitive outcomes.

Buying properties to build just one road is set to blow out to $1 billion, as the housing minister grapples with the eye-watering cost of acquiring land for transport corridors and housing ...

The drying up of centralised water reform and promises of low rates may be politically useful, but according to global credit raters S&P Global, they’ve left councils in turbulent waters ...

The Supreme Court has given the green light for a case against some of NZ’s biggest polluters in what some describe as judicial activism ...

Embarrassingly for Fletcher’s directors, they clearly had no idea about the extent of the company’s growing financial problems ...

Last summer’s interminable rains have presented something of a nadir since recording began for the safety of swimming at Auckland beaches ...

With our politics, it's amazing we've got this far on climate by Rod Oram 28/07/202217/11/2023 NZ's political ability to confront climate change will be greatly diminished if the Greens don't get ...

Mayor’s 10-year budget proposal hopes central government will step up to share the rising cost of road upkeep ...

Why have so many climate change deniers emerged as anti-vaxxers during the pandemic, and why are so many people listening to their false fairytales, asks Dr Kevin Trenberth of Auckland University ...

With half-year results out this week, rising interest rates mean Fletcher Building and others in the infrastructure sector are no longer expected to climb to the same heights as yesteryear. Photo: ...