August 2026 vehicle registrations rose 7.6 percent to 20,252 units and Chinese brands took 18.7 percent of new registrations. Rental fleets took 27.7 percent of new passenger sales.

Pet Refuge has hit capacity after 17 dogs arrived in a fortnight, with six more on a waitlist, and is asking pet lovers to fund extra boarding beds.

September is the busiest month in a New Zealand garden. What to sow, plant and harvest now, with timing for every region ...

Auckland Council has granted resource consent for a $58 million rebuild of the Waiwera hot springs north of Auckland, with 29 pools and an opening targeted for mid 2028.

Centrix says more than 2,900 New Zealand hospitality businesses stopped trading in the past year and 422 were liquidated, 3.3 times the average failure rate.

Ryan Fox has qualified automatically for the 2026 Presidents Cup International Team, the first New Zealander in the event since Danny Lee in 2015.

Parliament's Education and Workforce Committee has recommended the Modern Slavery Bill be passed, with ACT opposed. Nine sitting days remain before the House rises.

ANZ's August Business Outlook has business confidence at 53.7 and past activity up to 16.4, but firms still report fewer staff than a year ago and rising cost expectations.

The Warriors beat the Newcastle Knights at Mount Smart on Sunday and now lead the NRL ladder by a single point of differential with one round of the season left.

Labour will guarantee a public health job for every New Zealand trained nurse at graduation and double the primary care recruitment subsidy, at a cost of $525 million a year.

Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngārimu led 14 Platoon of the 28th Māori Battalion up the hill at Tebaga Gap in 1943 and was the first ...

ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Westpac and Kiwibank all expect the Reserve Bank to raise the official cash rate to 2.75 percent on 2 September. What it means for mortgages and jobs.