4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (511+ words) That is the whole problem in one anecdote. And on 9 September 2026, the Ministry for Regulation released its Hospitality Sector Review, confirming in evidence what operators have complained about for years. This is not a marginal industry. Minister Louise Upston has…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (332+ words) New research from Women’s Refuge, released to RNZ on 10 September 2026, shows a genuine shift in how New Zealand workplaces handle family violence. Comparing surveys from 2019 and 2024, paid family violence leave uptake among affected women has risen from 9% to almost 34%. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (524+ words) A collapsed developer selling apartments below cost is not, on its own, a market-moving event. What makes DDL Estates worth watching is the arithmetic behind it and what those forced sales do to everyone else’s numbers. When DDL fell over,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (513+ words) Cromwell is a Central Otago town of 7,500 people. It is not on Tourism New Zealand’s greatest-hits reel and it does not spend millions promoting itself. Yet Kiwi Water Park, an inflatable playground on Lake Dunstan, now pulls tourists off the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (360+ words) The number of people in apprenticeships and workplace-based training fell to 108,315 in 2025, the lowest count since 2011 and down 32% from the record 158,570 reached in 2022. This is not a plateau. A July 2026 briefing to Tertiary Education Minister Penny Simmonds showed Q1 2026 enrolments running…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (369+ words) That is a direct shot at the legislative structure underpinning one of the country’s most valuable export industries. And the timing could hardly be worse. Kiwifruit is not a soft target. Export earnings hit a record $3.66 billion in 2024/25, up $958 million…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (676+ words) Russell Harrison, a former Lotto presenter, started as a Family Court navigator in Rotorua in June 2021 and was arrested that same month in a global FBI sting targeting organised crime. He was suspended on full pay, and stayed suspended, collecting…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) When the government dismantled Te Pūkenga, it framed the break-up as a restoration of regional autonomy and industry-led accountability. The first serious test of that promise has arrived, and it is not going the way the reform’s backers might have…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (413+ words) The most commercially important detail sits in a single Southland case. Kings Log Transport had 800 litres siphoned from two trucks at a secure yard, plus 200 litres from other vehicles, a loss of over $2,400. It was not covered by insurance. The…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (349+ words) Parnell resident Paul Ryan did something almost nobody who gets a camera car ticket bothers to do. He disputed $85 in parking fines issued in late 2025, demanded the raw footage from Auckland Transport’s licence plate recognition cameras, and prepared to argue…...