The Latest Breaking News from NZ

The Breakers confirmed their NBL title credentials after surviving a late scare from the 36ers.

Hanging out at the beach, body surfing, boogie boarding or just cooling off in frothy waves under a hot sun are all part of a typical Kiwi summer.

It’s that time of year when school and university students eagerly (or nervously) await their end-of-year results – but also an opportunity to see where the country in general might have passed or failed.

Globally and locally there’s uncertainty in the commercial real estate sector. Interest rates and inflation are rising, and organisations are still working out what their offices will look like in a post-Covid world. BNZ’s Phil Bennett ponders seven likely trends for 2023 | Content partnership

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.