NZ Herald’s top 20 Premium stories of 2025
The following are just 20 of the best-read Premium articles in 2025. After years of declining education achievement…
Cambridge International exams: The NZ schools that produced the highest-achieving students
Yet 12 months earlier, he wasn’t even considering taking PE. He’d long dreamed of being accepted into an…
Power list: BCI names NZ’s busiest commercial builders for projects started in 2024
The BCI Construction League Report assigned a dollar value to workloads started in 2024, meaning the top three…
High Court appoints administrators to oversee $240m repairs at St Lukes Gardens, NZ’s biggest leaky building
Weathertightness defects were first detected in 2014. It is now considered New Zealand’s largest leaky building repair project,…
Power rankings: New Zealand’s top sporting schools of 2025 revealed
The 2025 results are in, and they reveal a new leader in both genders. Also featuring in this…
Auckland couple spend $900k on ‘defective’ Remuera mansion reno, six-year court battle
And while a judge found their builder liable for repair costs for a substandard roof, the couple must…
Dunedin millionaire Roger Fewtrell building homes to help first‑home buyers get ahead
“We build homes and we sell them for market value, and then I chip in a hundred grand…
NZ Jet: Husband-and-wife team get fast new Gulfstream, aim to deliver tailor-made journeys big airlines can’t
A key focus for NZ Jet is flying to multiple destinations in ways big carriers cannot. There’s also…
Your chance to win camera prizes in Herald’s Summer Holiday Photo Competition
Nikki McNaughten won the contest last year with a fabulous shot of her son, 3-year-old Marlin, surfing with…
Dynamic Business: 2026 will bring slow NZ recovery not ‘rock star’ growth – Simon Bridges
Moreover, the harder factors are stronger. The OCR and our bank interest rates, and export prices against a…
Our Heroes: Herald’s top NZers of 2025 in news, sport, business and entertainment
Everybody needs a hero – and luckily New Zealand is not short of them. The New Zealand Herald…
Will Auckland’s inner city schools accept out-of-zone students? See the Herald’s figures
Mt Albert Grammar said its 2026 jump in in-zone students was “daunting”, while Selwyn College principal Sheryll Ofner…