9+ hour, 43+ min ago   (272+ words) National has announced it will scrap the current First Home Loan income limits and replace them with a single $300,000 cap for every applicant, whether single, coupled or buying in a group. The existing thresholds, $95,000 for a single person and $150,000 for…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (243+ words) Waikato University is asking Hamilton City Council to waive more than $5 million in development contributions and hand over $250,000 a year for five years towards its new medical school, a total ratepayer contribution of roughly $7 million on a $280 million project. Councillor…...

4+ day, 9+ 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…...

4+ day, 9+ 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…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (292+ words) With calls to dismember the four big gentailers reaching an election-year peak, along comes James Bushnell, professor of economics at the University of California Davis, to muddy the narrative. In an interview published on 7 September 2026, Bushnell said there were “lots…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (625+ words) Labour is selling its capital gains tax as narrow, targeted, and something nine out of ten New Zealanders will never pay. Businesses, the pitch goes, are excluded. The family home is out. Farms, KiwiSaver, shares and retirement savings are all…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (379+ words) On 4 February 2026, a trapped air bubble in a bypass pipe flooded critical electrical gear at Wellington’s Moa Point wastewater plant and shut down the city’s primary sewage treatment facility. Since then roughly 14 billion litres of untreated sewage has been discharged…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (226+ words) The target is clear. The Bill applies to every company operating in New Zealand with annual revenue over $100 million, roughly 1,000 firms. Those in scope must map their supply chains, publish annual modern slavery statements covering their structure, operations, remedial actions…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (369+ words) That is a direct shot at the legislative structure underpinning one of the country’s most valuable export industries. And the timing could hardly be worse. Kiwifruit is not a soft target. Export earnings hit a record $3.66 billion in 2024/25, up $958 million…...