Oil crisis puts businesses accused of virtue signalling in the box seat to survive – Nick Stewart
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has referenced New Zealand’s 50 days of fuel supply as reassurance. But read the…
Fuel prices: How to legally and safely store petrol amid spiralling prices
The average price of unleaded 91 petrol in New Zealand passed $3 a litre today for the first…
Average price of petrol hits near four-year high as Kiwis urged not to panic-buy
In Auckland, the cheapest available 91 grade rose 24 cents from $2.59 on Friday to $2.83 on Monday…
Napier’s squabbling councillors get the region’s biggest pay bump
Roger Brownlie remains Mayor Richard McGrath’s deputy mayor until the Tuesday meeting’s vote, a council spokesperson has confirmed.…
Whanganui newborn tips scales at 15lb
“We were thinking, how much bigger would he be?” The couple were assigned two obstetricians, one of whom…
Western Bay of Plenty councillors get average 57% pay rise to $80,000
The table used data from the Remuneration Authority, the independent agency that sets the pay for key public…
Fonterra farmers in line for $4.2b windfall on bumper dairy season and Mainland sale
Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell said Fonterra had been able to make changes based on recent improvements in…
Africa Faces Rapid Sea-Level Rise Despite Minimal CO₂ Emissions (Report)
Sea levels off African coasts have risen at a rate four times faster since 2010 than in…
The parenting deficit: The numbers that show why school holidays are asking the impossible
Then there were teacher-only days, sick days and school events; no matter how I balanced it, I felt…
Bay of Plenty weather in 2025: Kawerau tops temperatures
It was the town’s highest maximum temperature since records began in 1954. Record heat, rising sea temperatures and…
Recent storms boosted California’s snowpack, but there’s still a long way to go
California’s snowpack remains below average despite the powerful atmospheric river storms that pounded the West Coast around Christmas,…
The cost of keeping principals: Pay packets at top private schools
While comparable figures are not reported by the public school system, the Ministry of Education provided some ranges…