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Fun's over for 'Pharma Bro'
![Martin Shkreli, centre, with his lawyers outside federal court in New York in August. Shkreli has been sentenced to ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/t/g/z/j/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1otgtw.png/1520625828685.jpg)
Former US drug company exec Martin Shkreli boasted that he'd spend little to no time in prison. He was wrong.
Synagogue for sale
![A former synagogue, in Auckland CBD, has been placed on the market for sale.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/t/d/b/t/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1otdcm.png/1520582986713.jpg)
Looking for something to spice up your property portfolio? How about a century-old former house of worship?
The end of Kāpiti Airport?
![Air New Zealand is pulling out of Paraparaumu Airport.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/p/v/j/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1osqye.png/1520584853372.jpg)
Developer spies an opening to build houses on prime land as Air NZ axes its services.
'More words' won't fix problems
![A rally outside the Christchurch Art Gallery last month against delays on insurance settlements.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/l/v/h/a/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1osu1b.png/1520577296311.jpg)
Minister Megan Woods says outstanding claims won't be delayed if EQC takes Fletcher Building to court.
Queenstown Bunnings declined
![An artist's impression of a proposed Bunnings store in Queenstown.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/t/6/3/d/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1otapb.png/1520572753142.jpg)
Commissioners were concerned with the visual effects of the large building on SH6.
The online honesty box
![Customers select the produce they wish to buy from the app.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/t/a/h/k/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ot5kn.png/1520578974993.jpg)
Instead of scavenging for coins to pay for produce at a roadside stall, you can now pull out your smart phone to pay.
Dying man's will requests ignored
![One of Graeme Wislang's last wishes was to make arrangements for the care of his dog after he'd gone.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/5/e/k/b/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ot3q2.png/1520569870720.jpg)
He spent his last year trying to change his will. His emails were not answered.
Cricket Australia trumps Sky
![Australia went 1-0 up in the four-test series in South Africa after Mitchell Starc cleaned up the home lower order.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/p/o/k/k/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1or2gi.png/1520568739942.jpg)
Sky not televising the South Africa test series, so Cricket Australia offers it to NZ viewers for $25.
Making money from freedom campers
![Chris Wagner's first trial KiwiCamp unit has regularly hosted 25 vehicles a night for the last six months and he says ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/w/e/2/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1oswxl.png/1520566934110.jpg)
Private investors are interested in financing a network of freedom camping pods that could include a facility in the centre of Christchurch.
Standing our ground
![Morris West, aka Ferdie the Bull, and TRFU CEO Jeremy Parkinson are looking forward with optimism.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/m/b/q/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1on3uq.png/1520564419054.jpg)
It's just a piece of infrastructure, but it's left a large hole in Taranaki Rugby.
Dying man's will requests ignored
![One of Graeme Wislang's last wishes was to make arrangements for the care of his dog after he'd gone.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/5/e/k/b/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ot3q2.png/1520569870720.jpg)
He spent his last year trying to change his will. His emails were not answered.
Taking 63,000 years off our debt slavery
OPINION: Removing years from your mortgage is simple, as umpteen BNZ customers are demonstrating.
Barren paddock to bustling village
![Noel and Eleanor Mortimer stand outside Noel's workshop where he has crafted signs and fences for the Field Days for the ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/i/t/x/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1orfw5.png/1520567399933.jpg)
Floods, droughts, cyclones: Reminiscing over 25 years of the Central Districts Field Days.
Company director in court
![Chain Rigging and Scaffolding closed its doors on December 19. (file photo)](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/n/l/s/6/n/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1orci3.png/1520389430967.jpg)
The scaffolding business was put in liquidation days before Christmas, now the director is in court.
'Shocking' farmer banned
![Taranaki farmer Joseph James Ernest Cover was sentenced on three animal welfare charges.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/t/6/3/a/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1osbv2.png/1520567169199.jpg)
A dead cow lay in a drain. Dozens more were starving. Joseph Cover did nothing.
Kiwi women lead world in small businesses
![Data indicates that only 48 per cent of women who own SMEs say they are the main breadwinner in the family, compared to ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/i/0/8/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1os4mu.png/1520479709728.jpg)
New Zealand's biggest businesses are being told to take lessons from some of the smallest, if they want more women in leadership positions.
Rising rents force Aucklanders out
![Te Atatū South resident Aline Martin has lived in the two-bedroom unit for more than three years, but the rent is going up.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/r/h/5/j/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1orhg2.png/1520563099143.jpg)
An Auckland woman says she can afford an extra bedroom just by moving to the regions.
Want a house? That'll be 16 years
![A big problem for first-home buyers is that the deposit goal post keeps moving.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/n/k/1/d/6/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ot0bv.png/1520551197240.jpg)
New data shows it will take 832 weeks for the average Auckland buyer to save a deposit on a first home.
Fixer-uppers sell for less
![Houses where maintenance has been deferred are "discounted" in the cooling housing market.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/r/y/a/s/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1or7od.png/1520537732579.jpg)
Homebuyers get more picky about properties that need work, amid less competition for houses.
KiwiBuild 'set to disappoint'
![Housing Minister Phil Twyford says government backing of off-plan developments will ensure they happen.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/p/m/f/f/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1osmwr.png/1520493042857.jpg)
Touted as a housing game-changer, the KiwiBuild scheme can only disappoint, economist warns.
The truth about CEO pay
![In 1965, an American CEO was paid about 20 times – a ratio of 20-to-1 – more than the median pay of other workers. By ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/k/u/8/z/j/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1osqhh.png/1520536152996.jpg)
OPINION: The CEOs of listed US firms are paid top dollar. New research shows they don't earn it.
Ten things to complain about
![We need a better system of compensation of hours spent waiting for delayed flights.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/r/s/q/w/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1orska.png/1520543247096.jpg)
OPINION: It's the year of the dog. Here are a few financial ones to avoid.
Watch for fees when paying-off
![Don't let the option of spreading the cost trick you into spending more than you should.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/n/j/2/9/h/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1ort76.png/1520418149485.jpg)
If I'm shopping and am offered the option to Afterpay, Laybuy or some other delayed payment method, should I take it? Or are there hidden costs?
Bobby calf deaths down
![Taranaki Federated Farmers dairy vice-chairwoman Janet Schultz outside a bobby calf pen. Farmers have had to upgrade ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/k/2/e/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1oskow.11jq0k.png/1520483733805.jpg)
Both animal rights activists and officials are taking credit for lower death rates.
Fonterra gag in public interest
![Fonterra's substantive case against former director Leonie Guiney should be heard in several weeks.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/4/p/4/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1os3jf.11jq0k.png/1520474940248.jpg)
Gagging order of dairy farmer expected to be short-term, High Court papers show.
Myer dumped from ASX 200
![Actress Jodi Anasta at a Myer "Spring Social" event in Sydney on August 17, 2017.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/n/f/5/9/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1oswho.png/1520547653723.jpg)
Less than a month after its CEO departed, the iconic Australian retailer has been dealt another blow.
Trump may exempt US allies
![News that the US planned to apply tariffs of 25 per cent on imported steel and 10 per cent on aluminium shocked trading ...](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/o/s/8/l/r/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1os893.png/1520471011754.jpg)
President's planned tariffs will hurt US friends while leaving the target, China, largely unscathed.
What Fearless Girl inspired
![Some companies simply shrugged, but the defiant statue helped push 150 firms to add women to their all-male boards.](http://web.archive.org./web/20180309211511im_/https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/m/8/h/h/m/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.1os3dx.png/1520465036337.jpg)
Some just shrugged, but the defiant statue helped push 150 firms to add women to all-male boards.