BYD and its rivals now own a quarter of the NZ new car market
New Zealand registered 8,736 new passenger vehicles in July 2026, up 14.8% year-on-year from 7,605 units a year earlier. That makes it the best July since 2021. But the raw number hides the real story. The growth was not spread across the...
Should new AI data centre consents be paused for a year?
One unbuilt data centre is already rewriting NZ energy policy
The load nobody planned for Data centres used to be someone else's problem, big sheds full of servers, invisible to the...
AI data centre boom runs into politics and the law
A $3.5 billion Southland project was consented without the public being notified. Now a fight over pausing new approvals, water...
64% of bigger firms use AI, only 30% of the smallest do
The number that should worry every small employer MYOB's 2026 Business Monitor, published on 3 August, lands a single figure that...
New Zealand’s maritime surveillance programme is a commercial contract waiting to be won
One unbuilt data centre is already rewriting NZ energy policy
Why did a minister’s own deadline mean nothing to his own ministry?
The promise that missed its own deadline Community mental health providers were told by Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey that the...
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