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Commercial sensitivity is shielding every loan term in the regional infrastructure fund

Public money, private terms The $1.2 billion Regional Infrastructure Fund was launched in July 2024 to push capital into regional New...

By B2B News | 06 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Why has a finished 30-flat Crown block sat empty for a full year?

Here is a state-sector failure any business owner will recognise instantly. The capital has been spent. The asset is built...

By B2B News | 06 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Consent a $600 million wind farm in four and a half months

The number that matters is the calendar Mercury Energy's Mahinerangi Wind Farm Stage 2 cleared the government's Fast-track Approvals Act on...

By B2B News | 06 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Most dairy farmers are simply not filing their nitrogen reports

A reporting rule that most farmers now ignore Only 61 percent of dairy farmers reported their synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use in...

By B2B News | 06 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Brent crude at $72 hands NZ firms their first real cost break in months

From $120 to $72 in four months The oil shock that hammered New Zealand cost structures this year is unwinding fast....

By B2B News | 06 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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New Age Exploration names fast-track law as reason to drill near Dunedin

A big number attached to a few drill holes Australian-listed New Age Exploration told the ASX this week it has found...

By B2B News | 06 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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$726 gone and Uber told him to update his password

A 3am call and a drained wallet Uber driver Dhruva Javkar was working the early hours in Wellington when a scammer...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Damien Grant did the arithmetic TOP hoped nobody would do

The 440,000 adults who vanished Start with the number that does not work. The Opportunities Party's own policy document puts the...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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10,000 tiny homes occupied with no legal pathway to compliance

A product with no legal home Tiny homes on wheels are sold as affordable flexibility. Buy one, tow it, live cheaply,...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Queenstown turned a national shouting match into a working local company

A national argument becomes a local balance sheet Queenstown Lakes District's water services company was legally established this week, currently trading...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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$4.45 million shortfall leaves Gisborne logging creditors with almost nothing

Seven cents, and the little guys got zero Three years after Gisborne forestry operator Stubbs Contractors went into liquidation in May...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Once a political afterthought, KiwiSaver is now a 123 billion dollar employer obligation

For two decades, KiwiSaver has been the retirement policy politicians could quietly ignore. That window is closing. National has committed...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Coastal homeowners are quietly solving a crisis planners created and left behind

The private bill for public failures Peter Maich's home near Westport sits on a riverbank close to the Buller River mouth,...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Grey Lynn couple renovated a home they now cannot sell to anyone

A charade with a chequebook attached A Grey Lynn couple bought their King St home for $900,000 last year, renovated it,...

By B2B News | 05 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Five million people, world-class founders, zero headquarters to show for it

The talent is real, the postcodes are not A Stuff feature published this week profiles five New Zealanders quietly steering some...

By B2B News | 04 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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From cyclone wipeout to bumper crop, NZ avocados have staged a remarkable comeback

From disaster season to bumper crop Three years ago the New Zealand avocado industry was on its knees. Cyclone Gabrielle and...

By B2B News | 04 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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