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This week's interest rates decision will be a tough one that may yet disappoint mortgaged homeowners and turn NZ back down the path to recession, writes Andrew Patterson.

NZ Steel's next step is using hydrogen and natural gas to eliminate emissions in the first step of turning ironsands into steel, but the company says commercial deployment is at least decade away. Rod Oram reports.

All the pre-budget talk of “bread and butter”, “no frills”, targeting and reprioritisation came with a sense of foreboding. History and research tell us that budgets in general – but particularly those hyper-focused on fiscal prudence – have different, often unequal impacts on women compared to men.

A man has been charged with two counts of arson over a fire at a hostel in Wellington, New Zealand, that killed at least six people.

The second major of the men’s golfing year takes place at Oak Hill

Human rights minister in exile calls on NZ to do more about abuses committed by the military regime in his home country.

Despite the tax advice scandal rocking the Australian business community, experts say the symbiotic relationship between the big four accounting firms and the New Zealand Government is apparently no cause for concern.

The second major of the men’s golfing year takes place at Oak Hill

New Zealand police are treating a deadly hostel fire as suspicious as a grim search of the 92-room building resumes on Wednesday.

Budget 2023 marks “half-time” for the Labour government’s long-term child poverty targets. It’s an ideal point in the ten-year project to take stock and see what’s worked and what hasn’t.

NZ has never come close to meeting its UN foreign aid targets, but with so many pressing issues at home this year, Stephen Knowles and John Crump examine whether we should care if we pull our weight on the world stage.