ANZ's August Business Outlook has business confidence at 53.7 and past activity up to 16.4, but firms still report fewer staff than a year ago and rising cost expectations.

Labour will guarantee a public health job for every New Zealand trained nurse at graduation and double the primary care recruitment subsidy, at a cost of $525 million a year.

All eight gold awards at The Big Sing 2026 finale in Christchurch went to Auckland school choirs, with a new national Pasifika award shared by Epsom Girls Grammar and Dilworth.

ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Westpac and Kiwibank all expect the Reserve Bank to raise the official cash rate to 2.75 percent on 2 September. What it means for mortgages and jobs.

National would cut the student loan repayment rate to 10 cents in the dollar from April 2027 and add 1 per cent interest for borrowers living overseas.

Filled jobs rose 18,033 in the year to July 2026 but health, public administration and education supplied 87 percent of the gain. Stats NZ data explained.

The Warriors beat the Newcastle Knights at Mount Smart on Sunday and now lead the NRL ladder by a single point of differential with one round of the season left.

A very bright green fireball crossed the upper North Island just before 7.44pm on Sunday. Fireballs Aotearoa says the rock most likely fell into the sea.

Christopher Luxon says staying in the Paris climate agreement is non-negotiable in coalition talks, setting up a clash with ACT and New Zealand First before the 7 November election.

Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu led 14 Platoon of the 28th Māori Battalion up the hill at Tebaga Gap in 1943 and was the first ...

Rotorua rider Lachlan Stevens-McNab has finished second in the elite men's downhill at the mountain bike world championships in Italy, just 0.695 seconds behind Canada's Jackson Goldstone.

Australia is withdrawing all 24 staff from Macquarie Island before an expected bird flu die-off, and New Zealand's subantarctic islands lie 700km away.