13+ hour, 57+ min ago   (547+ words) For anyone who owns or runs a general practice, the headline out of the latest GenPro survey is deceptively upbeat. The numbers are moving in the right direction. The problem is the direction of travel matters less than the pace,…...

13+ hour, 56+ min ago   (282+ words) On 13 September, the Major Electricity Users’ Group, whose members include Amazon, Fonterra and Woolworths, released an election manifesto telling all parties to commit to tougher efficiency rules for the country’s 28 electricity distribution businesses. This is not a plea for handouts....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (508+ words) The result was $93.17, nearly $20 above the inflation-adjusted figure. For employers, that gap is not a household curiosity. It is a preview of the wage demands landing on their desks. The divergence is sharpest exactly where New Zealand is a big…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (417+ words) The land 10km southwest of the Christchurch CBD used to grow apples. The Kain brothers ran their Apple Fields orchards there, and Heinz Wattie’s held a 61-hectare vegetable plot. Today that ground has been assembled into the 150-hectare Hornby Quadrant, and…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (446+ words) NZ First’s 14-point immigration overhaul, unveiled on 11 September, is built around a referendum to cap resident visas at 20,000 a year. At first glance that sounds moderate. The detail is where it gets sharp. The cap applies to resident visas, the…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (563+ words) B2B News Methanex’s exit turns a policy argument into a workforce emergency For years the gas shortage read like a sectoral squabble – producers, generators and industrial users lobbying Wellington for a friendlier policy settlement. That framing is now obsolete. On 9 September…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (286+ words) The principle sounds simple enough. When a developer builds houses, they pay councils for the pipes, roads, parks and stormwater their project triggers. Growth pays for growth, and existing ratepayers don’t get stung for the cost of accommodating new arrivals....

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (384+ words) KiwiSaver has crossed the point where it stops being a personal finance story and becomes a capital markets one. Total balances hit $138.37 billion across 3,351,406 members as at 31 December 2025, according to the Retirement Commission’s demographic study. That sits inside a managed…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (306+ words) Read that again. The minister accepts the label can mislead. He simply does not think enough shoppers are being misled to bother acting. For a portfolio whose entire purpose is protecting the integrity of the market, that is a strange…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (270+ words) Directors have spent decades treating the company structure as a firewall between them and their firm’s liabilities. A mid-2026 High Court judgment out of Gisborne has just shown how thin that wall really is when environmental compliance goes wrong. Justice…...