It’s the Resource Management Act, which this week received a makeover so severe it now has two faces: the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill, which will come into effect by 2029 – unless ...

If the OECD was a workplace, New Zealand would be the dead weight – the colleague who turns up each day, switches on their computer, makes a cup of tea and manages to achieve sweet fuck all for the ...

From the modern horrors of Adolescence to the campy twists of The Celebrity Traitors UK, here’s everything we loved on TV in 2025. It’s been another pretty weird year for television. Our local content ...

The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. Some are ...

Just the second female mayor in the city’s history, Sophie Barker wants to make Dunedin the best little city in the land.

Even in the darkest times, we could always take pride in the Black Caps' fielding. Those days appear to be gone.

The current state of Tāmaki Makaurau’s phone booths varies from operational to ruin. On Eden Street in Auckland Central the phone casing has been ripped off, revealing the cords and screws. The ...

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Surgery is looking like it will be around $40,000, so that's where most of it is going for the next few years.' ...

The UV index measures the strength of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation and indicates the risk of harm from unprotected sun ...

Alex Casey charts the rapid growth of the big yellow discount pharmacy across Aotearoa and finds independent pharmacies struggling in its shadow. There are two Chemist Warehouses in Auckland’s CBD ...

Even AI true believers worry that we’re in a bubble – maybe even a ‘meta bubble’. Duncan Greive asks how New Zealand would survive it popping. Last week marked three years since OpenAI debuted its ...