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A small raise with an outsized ambition Christchurch deep-tech start-up Kura Dynamics has raised $5 million in pre-seed venture capital to...
An endorsement break-up advocates didn't want With calls to dismember the four big gentailers reaching an election-year peak, along comes James...
A big number with a missing answer The Green Party's KiwiMart proposal, launched on 6 September as the centrepiece of an...
A textbook externality with a public landlord When a private landowner's neglect causes damage next door, there is a word for...
A regulator caught between speed and money New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority is being asked to do something no regulator finds...
The short-term saving that becomes a long-term problem Here is the trap most businesses are walking into with their eyes open....
The biggest retail cheque ever written Botany Town Centre has hit the market in what Colliers and JLL are pitching as...
What terroir is actually worth Every premium food and beverage exporter chasing a price premium is really selling the same thing:...
The number that matters Forget the pitch-deck projections that usually accompany tech stories. Flicket, the Mount Maunganui digital ticketing and visitor...
What documentation failure looks like at its worst In September 2022, Hamilton senior firefighter Paloma Serville and her crew performed CPR...
A power nobody in the industry will use Parliament passed a law to help stop shoplifters. The industry it was meant...
A collapsed developer selling apartments below cost is not, on its own, a market-moving event. What makes DDL Estates worth...
An inflatable water park just rewrote the rules Cromwell is a Central Otago town of 7,500 people. It is not on...
A moment no editor would have interrupted On the evening of 4 September 2026, as Jai Arrow walked out for his...
A regulator that failed its own test Parliament's Privileges Committee has found MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley and former Immigration NZ...
A campaign line drawn in the estate NZ First deputy leader and resources minister Shane Jones has turned mining and quarrying...