The Latest Breaking News from NZ

Start-ups led by women receive just 18 percent of angel investment in NZ. Business editor Nikki Mandow reveals the added challenges that make it so hard for women to establish food brands.

Tomorrow’s minimum wage increase to NZ$21.20 an hour should help a significant number of New Zealand’s lowest paid workers and their families – 300,000 people, according to the government.

In Te Tiriti and Democracy Part 1, Dame Anne Salmond argued our top judges in 1987 exacerbated issues over the Treaty of Waitangi. Here, she explains NZ's first chief justice foresaw problems

Sydney FC defender Ally Green will switch her international allegiance to New Zealand after this weekend's A-League Women grand final.

New Zealand will do what Australia never would and resettle 450 refugees stuck in Australia’s offshore detention. Our neighbour will take 150 refugees per year for the next three years of those already in detention. Unfortunately any asylum seekers who arrive by boat in future will not be eligible for…

Australia has agreed to a refugee resettlement deal with New Zealand after a longstanding offer from its trans-Tasman neighbour.

Wellington Phoenix are planning to return home to play A-League Men's games after the New Zealand government removed restrictions on outdoor gatherings.

Public libraries witness some truly remarkable behaviours – cows leaving behind their mark, removal of the word 'blood', and scribbles over 'naughty' words to name a few.  

Vladimir Putin and 12 others figures are targeted in an initial blacklist over the Ukraine invasion – but not a businessman tied to NZ.