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…
Local firms eye 2026 growth but fear rising costs and inflation
“As local businesses prepare to put another challenging year behind them, it’s encouraging to see optimism coming through…
Workplace trends for 2026: From AI capability to part-time pathways
A recent Employment Hero survey of 500 New Zealand workers, titled Employment Uncovered, found 41% are actively or…
Year in Review: Hazelnuts prove to be a good cash crop for Waikato farmer
Raewyn and her husband Allan bought 25 hectares of her family farm in 2008 and raised their two…
Year in review: Waikato farmer reunites with his family’s vintage Fordson tractor
His great-grandfather cleared large blocks of land and had eight sons and a few daughters to whom he…
Severe weather: Trees down, power cuts and muddy start to festivals as gales lash north
Gale-force winds reaching 120km/h and torrential rain have started to turn campsites and festival grounds into bogs as…
Volcanic activity has intensified at Sicily’s Mount Etna in recent days
Activity on Etna “increased very suddenly”, the institute said, noting that the episode produced 300- to 400m lava…
Air New Zealand reveals top movies, TV shows and music on flights in 2025
Taylor Swift has quickly climbed to the top of the charts, and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and The Tortured…
US TikToker asks for donations after fatally hitting a pedestrian while livestreaming
At the time of the crash, McCarty-Wroten called 911 and told responding officers the traffic light had been…
Kiwi woman with terminal cancer turns dream trips into ‘death rules’ mission
Hayley was 24 when she noticed her left thigh looked slightly larger than her right. When she began…
Diffuse infiltrating retinoblastoma: Pāpāmoa girl’s fight for her vision after rare cancer diagnosis
Her mother Alex McCarthy said they thought Kaia needed glasses. Elrond and Alex McCarthy, parents of Kaia and…
Year in Review: Waikato dairy farmer cherishes father’s 1955 John Deere 70 tractor
“My dad, Neil, switched the day-to-day tractors to John Deere when International and David Brown combined as Case…