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The mirage in the March numbers Stats NZ electronic card data for March 2026 showed headline retail spending up 0.5%. That...
A town that doubled in six years In August 2020, the West Coast median house price was $230,000. It was one...
Twelve months from incorporation to liquidation Guardians of Gold Limited lasted less than a year under its sole director Andrew Hollis....
The 45% number nobody wants to say out loud Waitaki District Council is staring down a proposed 19% rates increase, roughly...
A television relic that became a lifeline Dunedin's Mt Cargill transmission tower has been standing on a 670-metre peak since 1970,...
The 2,000km number is a distraction. The 600km number is not. CATL, the Chinese battery giant that supplies cells to Tesla,...
New Zealand's fine merino wool commands a fat premium in global markets. Fine wool accounts for just 10% of export...
Toyota spent the better part of a decade hedging against full electrification. It bet on hybrids, lobbied against EV mandates,...
28% more deals and the queue is getting longer New Zealand's market for buying and selling small businesses just posted its...
Ten weeks from now, an unknown number of rural medical practices across New Zealand could lose the funding premium that...
The government committed over $460 million to putting 500 extra officers on the street. Nearly three years later, the Police...
The numbers behind the handshake When Finance Minister Nicola Willis sat down with Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers in September 2025 to...
Selling houses from a war zone On the morning of Anzac Day, Donna Hewitt of Connect Realty Queenstown posted an AI-generated...
When a city centre starts losing shops, the question is never whether more will follow. It is how quickly. Whangārei just...
One city, one contract, one billion-dollar backlog Sometime in the last year, Dunedin City Council went to market for something councils...
NZ First leader Winston Peters has sharply condemned Labour’s decision to support the India free trade agreement, calling it "madness"...
