The Latest Breaking News from NZ

Should NZ rely on its own water infrastructure model? Should we give future generations a local pūkeko or an imported partridge? Credit agencies are watching like hawks.

There were nearly 300 water engineer positions advertised on recruitment website Seek last month. The high demand for these specialist engineers bodes ill for the government’s Three Waters reform, which will rely heavily on experts the country currently doesn’t have in the required numbers.

A family owned, South Otago-based logging company has become the first in NZ to import an electric-diesel harvester. It’s saved them a pack of money too, reports Nikki Mandow

2022 has been the year of reckoning: Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, central banks hiking interest rates at the fastest rate in almost 40 years, the implosion of the crypto space , and the year the tech stocks tanked.

Poor decision-making this year by autocratic leaders has led to greater instability in their political systems, impacting New Zealand’s external environment. While we cannot control the weaknesses in other countries’ political systems, Nicholas Khoo argues it is time to ask some tough questions.

A Newsroom investigation has uncovered further details about alleged transnational policing by Chinese officials in our country - but the man tied to the centre denies involvement in police work.

Progress as countries like NZ and India incorporate indigenous systems of knowledge and law into their existing legal systems, recognising forests and rivers under a 'rights of nature' doctrine.

The country wants to be completely smoke-free by 2025.

As NZ reports another quarter of slow economic growth, it is combining with inflationary pressures to pose a worrying economic outlook – here and around the world. A resilient China can help NZ through a worrying economic future.