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The Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill proposes repealing Sections 47 and 48 of the Act to allow licensed premises to ...
Financial markets were incredibly volatile. Risk assets were dumped and refuge sought but not in the traditional places. See our COTW for more on the market mayhem. Escalation then de-escalation was ...
Tinwald School’s principal is pleased its 30kph variable speed zone will be extended for when children return from the term break.
Womad is said typically to add some $6 million to Taranaki’s economy and despite the smaller crowds the festival still spent up large on over a thousand staff, 17 kilometres of fencing, seven ...
There are four known gas seeps in Hawke’s Bay. This one is in Raukawa Valley, about 30km from the coast and scientists from the US, Chile and Italy joined Hawke’s Bay Regional Council groundwater ...
Vietnam was New Zealand apple’s second-largest market after China, last year earning $126m, followed by kiwifruit with $30m and cherries with $10m. Family-owned apple company Heartland Fruit of ...
The head of Consumer NZ says the Fair Trading Act lacks the teeth to effectively deter companies from making misleading claims over their products’ environmental credibility.
But what are New Zealand’s biggest exports to the US, and how might they be affected? Last year, exports of goods to the US were worth just under $9 billion. That was 12.7 percent of all goods ...
Te Kōhaka o Tāne is owned by four Rūnanga; Hokonui (Gore), Te Rūnaka o Awarua (Bluff), Ōraka Aparima (Riverton) and Waihōpai Rūnaka (Invercargill). Based at a 5-hectare site that used to be managed by ...
The Government’s 2025 Greenhouse Gas Inventory reveals that, between 1990 and 2023, emissions from solid waste disposal fell by 14.2%, compared to a national increase in gross emissions of 13% over ...
MetService has issued a severe weather warning from 3am Wednesday 16 April until 8pm Thursday 17 April for the region. With severe weather on the cards ahead of the busy Easter holiday period, NZ ...
New Zealand Defence Force. The two agencies have acquired the USVs to further enhance New Zealands ability to patrol and protect its maritime interests and secur ...