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Newsroom asks Associate Finance Minister David Seymour which Crown businesses need to justify their continued public shareholding.

Ruapehu District Council was hailed a “ratepayer hero” by the Taxpayers’ Union lobby group last week. That was because the small North Island council managed an unexpected $700,000 overspend by cutting services and infrastructure investment, rather than hiking rates and fees.  But, highlighting the difficult balancing act between high rates…

The use of standardised, repeatable designs has become a Government mantra – and the education minister says that all started with her project to cut costs by building modular classrooms. "We've halved the cost of building a classroom," she tells Newsroom. "And I can see other ministers looking at us,…

In a surprise announcement, Apple has announced Apple Maps for the web as a public beta. Here’s how to use it.