19+ hour, 19+ min ago   (395+ words) Rotorua Lakes Council overhauled its inner-city parking on 1 July 2026, and the cost has already shown up where councils rarely look – on the turnover of small shops. Crystal McPhee moved The Mum Collections out of Hinemoa St to the city fringe…...

19+ hour, 18+ min ago   (282+ words) On 13 September, the Major Electricity Users’ Group, whose members include Amazon, Fonterra and Woolworths, released an election manifesto telling all parties to commit to tougher efficiency rules for the country’s 28 electricity distribution businesses. This is not a plea for handouts....

19+ hour, 18+ min ago   (295+ words) That is not the system failing. That is the system working exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Businesses hand the same information to the same regulator multiple times. Fees are high and opaque. The review produced 24 recommendations, from…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (290+ words) The consumer shift is not subtle. People on these drugs consume roughly 20% fewer calories and spend about 30% less on groceries. A Cornell University study from January 2026 found households cut grocery spending by about 5% within six months, with the sharpest cuts…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (274+ words) Jessica Walker, campaigns manager at Consumer NZ, does not dress it up. “Although we’ve got these rights, airlines don’t have to tell us about them. So what good is a consumer protection if you don’t know it exists?” It is…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (508+ words) The result was $93.17, nearly $20 above the inflation-adjusted figure. For employers, that gap is not a household curiosity. It is a preview of the wage demands landing on their desks. The divergence is sharpest exactly where New Zealand is a big…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (464+ words) For investors and developers, this is a story about durability. An approval that gets overturned in court, or that triggers a political reversal, is worse for the energy sector than a slower consent that holds. That speed is exactly what…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (272+ words) National has announced it will scrap the current First Home Loan income limits and replace them with a single $300,000 cap for every applicant, whether single, coupled or buying in a group. The existing thresholds, $95,000 for a single person and $150,000 for…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (451+ words) The common thread matters more than any single incident. Cyber risk has quietly moved from an IT inconvenience to a core business liability, and the payroll breach is the one that should have every board paying attention. The Thankyou Payroll…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (417+ words) The land 10km southwest of the Christchurch CBD used to grow apples. The Kain brothers ran their Apple Fields orchards there, and Heinz Wattie’s held a 61-hectare vegetable plot. Today that ground has been assembled into the 150-hectare Hornby Quadrant, and…...