Wellington City Council has agreed to progress a draft 2026/27 Annual Plan and budget that will result in a forecast average rates increase of 5.8 per cent, down from the 7.4 per cent proposed during ...

The northbound lane of Ōhaupō Road/State Highway 3 in Ōhaupō is blocked following a crash this afternoon. Police were called to the crash, where a vehicle has hit the median wire, around 3.15pm. There ...

Transporting New Zealand Head of Policy & Advocacy Billy Clemens says freight operators are seeking certainty that key transport projects and maintenance will continue despite current economic ...

Erica Stanford faced community backlash about new requirements on parents homeschooling their children. Craig McCulloch, ...

Sparks Consulting. Developed with expert technical advisor Associate Professor Andrew Waa it calls for vaping products to be restricted to regulated therapeutic ...

For those still living in the family home, these arent hypothetical questions. Theyre real, and they come up again and again.

Careful spending is working to ease the cost of living,” says ACT Leader David Seymour in response to the Reserve Bank’s decision to hold the Official Cash Rate at 2.25%. “A hold in the cash rate is ...

Police were called to an address on Townsend Place at about 1.15am after reports a man had suffered a serious assault.Police investigating a stabbing in Tikipunga on Sunday are continuing to appeal to ...

Young people from across Aotearoa are calling on the Government to use Budget 2026 to invest in the wellbeing, opportunities, ...

With ongoing uncertainty around the Iran conflicts impact on inflation, the Reserve Bank has rightly chosen to sit tight and hold the OCR at 2.25 percent as expected. Responding to this afternoon’s ...

Health industry groups and experts aren’t expecting great surprises from Budget 2026, but they’re hoping for a continuation ...

The motion directs the chief executive to identify upcoming capital works currently funded through general rates that could instead be debt-funded over 10 years, and to recalculate the draft Annual ...