Fuel price surge hits Dannevirke trucking and farm sector
“Unfortunately, it increases costs for everyone; no one makes any more profits. “You have got to have factors…
Hiring now in Bay of Plenty: Record kiwifruit crop drives 19,000 jobs, forecast of 221 million trays
The average pay for orchard tasks during the 2025/26 season was around $25.70 an hour, but rates went…
Resource management reform: What do primary sector groups think?
It said 2242 written submissions were publicly available, but the total number of submissions was confidential to the…
Iran war: Airlines face jet fuel price crisis, Air NZ shares down almost 8%, demand for flights through North America surges
Emirates services out of major hub Dubai have been on and off since the war started on February…
David Seymour eyes wine-style export boom in medicinal cannabis industry
The ministry defines a medicinal cannabis product as either dried cannabis flower, or a pharmaceutical dosage containing ingredients…
Nicola Willis’ planned Tesco meeting on breaking supermarket duopoly revealed
The Government did announce a suite of legislative and policy changes in August last year, with the key…
Banking sector hits back at Reserve Bank call to provide 1000 more branches, ATMs across NZ
“We’ve done a lot of work with communities, and that’s what they tell us.” The way the banking…
India’s High Commissioner to NZ says $33b investment an ‘aspiration’ in free trade agreement, Winston Peters says it’s ‘hard commitment’
Neeta Bhusan, the Indian representative, was at the Beehive this week. Photo / Jamie Ensor Bhushan’s comments are…
Oman’s SME sector grows strongly, reaching 130,359 firms
MUSCAT: Oman’s small and medium enterprise (SME) sector reached 130,359 registered firms by end-December 2025, as the Small…
Forestry sector calls for rates cap after Wairoa block bill increases 570%
Executive director Colin Jacobs said the 570% rates increase on that one forestry block amounts to $5 million…
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealand is ‘going to need support’, ‘capital investment’ for critical mineral sector as talks with US continue
“We actually don’t have anything and so we’d have to make serious investments and that will require capital…
Mining sector says Taranaki seabed plan rejection ‘embarrassing’
Vidal said it was embarrassing that the decision had come out while New Zealand officials had been sent…