Ratings agency positive about NZ

S&P's improved outlook is a vote of confidence in the direction of the NZ economy.

S&P upgrades NZ outlook due to improving financial position.

New owners for Mahana winery

Seifried Estates winemakers Heidi Seifried-Houghton, Chris Seifried and European market manager Marie O'Riordan at the ...

KiwiSaver provider Booster and Seifried Estate winery snap-up troubled Mahana Estates' assets.

Tourism coming off the boil

In December a Mood of the Nation survey found 47 per cent of Kiwis felt forecast growth of 5 million visitors by 2024 ...

New Zealanders worried about being overrun with overseas visitors may be about to get what they wished for.

Talleys charged over fishing breach

Fishing company Amaltal- the deepwater division of Talley's Group - has rejected suggestions of its vessel Apollo ...

Talley's says out of date information from an MPI observer led to unauthorised fishing in the Tasman Sea.

More stolen from Cryptopia? video

Cryptopia, on Colombo St, Christchurch, was in lockdown following a hack where millions of dollars of cryptocurrency was ...

While police have been investigating, a further $260,000 in cryptocurrency has been stolen, an analysis firm claims.

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Fair pay can solve low pay

Fair pay agreements would address pay parity issues so people who work the same job are paid the same rate for it.

OPINION: Ever wondered why retail workers in Australia start out on $20 an hour?

New Plymouth's KiwiBuild on track

The first of the KiwiBuild homes in Marfell, New Plymouth, should be built by mid 2019. (File Photo)

By early April, work on New Plymouth's KiwiBuild should start taking shape.

Droning out chopper noise

Transpower said the drones are being developed to work on electrified lines, reducing the need for power outages for ...

Transpower trials drones in a bid to reduce risk and noise of low-flying helicopters.

ACC cuts 'contradict' Govt policy

Rationalisation of ACC's payments division will see 22 jobs go at the Timaru office. (File)

ACC has come under fire for its moves to slash staff numbers at the Timaru office, with Aoraki Development's chief executive calling it "astounding"

Government tenants decant to smart new offices

The redevelopment of the 1970s Charles Fergusson Tower took 26 months and involved the installation of a new glass wall ...

Government department on the move to reconstructed Charles Fergusson Tower.

200 warnings, infringements issued

Rodney Local Board member Phelan Pirrie said there was even rubbish dumped next a huge skip.

Piles of dumped building materials and portaloos are marring a new Auckland subdivision.

Buoy o buoy, what a move

The buoy was washed up on Ngamotu Beach during a heavy storm in January 2017.

A large buoy, which became a tourist attraction, has found a new home.

Seasonal workers for forestry

Iain Lees-Galloway announced the government's new regional skills shortage list policy in Ashburton in December.

Could the Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme get the government's tree-planting program back on track?

PG&E 'put profits over lives'

Judge William Alsup said his goal was to prevent PG&E equipment from causing any wildfires during the 2019 fire season.

Huge US power firm enriched shareholders instead of clearing trees that can start fires, judge says.

8000 websites may go offline

Some websites may fail on Saturday.

Many websites that will foul of 'DNS Flag Day' are unlikely to be missed.

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Declutter your money

We need to visualise our financial pantry in nice neat categories; debts, savings, insurance, income and expenses.

OPINION: I don't care about your undies, get your money sorted.

What would capital gains tax mean? video

Someone who held a property in Auckland over the past decade would have had a $100k bill.

NZ banks risk to Aus

Term deposit rates low, should I invest in shares?

small business

Bike courier delivers in a dash video

Vaughan Antonio has started a bike courier company called Dash Cycle Couriers, which delivers packages around central ...

Speedy businessman will get your stuff across the city in no time at all.

'Seagull' intersection grounded by long traffic queues

Rochelle Wells, with Archie, 1, and Lachie, 3, and businessman Steve Day at the Devon Road and Egmont Road intersection, ...

Motorists are taking risks and misjudging journey from busy side road across a state highway, it has been claimed.

Morton Motors closing down

Elizabeth and Richard Morton are looking forward to retirement, but it'll feel strange after dedicating 30 years to ...

Richard and Elizabeth Morton plan to close up their car workshop in February.

Rollo's to close

Rollo's Outdoor Centre in Bridge St, Nelson is closing for good on Saturday.

Competition from online brands leads Nelson family business to pack up camp after 47 years.

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Caught in a gin trap

Elon Musk's tequila, Teslaquila, did not make Mexicans very happy.

Sick of being in wine's shade, the liquor industry is out to make old drinks new.

Tomorrow's debt pain, today's gain

Credit cards and other payment methods are cheaper for retailers than buy now, pay later.

All of a sudden, payment by installment and layby schemes are in shops everywhere.

Restaurant fined for exploiting migrant staff

Golden Spring restaurant on Gloucester Street, Napier.

Restaurant failed to log workers' long hours, fined $30,000.

Why we're losing talented women

Megan Blandford believes honest advice about returning to work after having a baby can be hard to find.

OPINION: Honest advice about returning to work after having a baby can be hard to find.

property

Trades treated as inferior

Trade qualifications should be ranked higher in our national qualifications system, the building training organisation says.

Centuries of prejudice counts against trades, the building training organisation says.

New year, new office deal

C:Drive was built for ASB in 2001 and stands on a 2.12 hectare site.

Earlybird 2019 award-winning office building investment on offer

KiwiBuild's interim targets scrapped

Jacinda Ardern, Phil Twyford, and Phil Goff at a KiwiBuild event. The policy's interim targets have been scrapped.

KiwiBuild's "interim" targets for this term have been scrapped as the Government recalibrates the programme.

Capital gain on retirement units

Most retirement village operators get the capital gain on the units. When residents leave or die they or their estates ...

Want to keep the capital gain? A Tauranga company is shaking up the traditional retirement village model.

opinion & analysis

CGT is a big tax for small biz video

Applying the same capital gains tax regime to business as to property makes the system any fairer: Hannah McQueen

OPINION: Businesses are actually productive - unlike property.

Fair pay leak bad faith video

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the vast bulk of employers have nothing to fear from Fair Pay Agreements.

OPINION: Fair Payment Agreements leak exposes the ideological divide between employer fears and union expectations.

The forestry industry needs you

Planting only occurs in the winter months, so the sector needs to be looking at other opportunities to create ...

OPINION: Labour is a challenge for the forestry industry. Local workers must be part of the solution.

Insurance review too cautious

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Financial regulators release damning report on life insurers.

Financial Markets ...

OPINION: Long-awaited review into the life insurance industry didn't hit hard enough.

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K5 rabbit virus a 'fail'

A report to the Otago Regional Council says 47 per cent of the rabbit population has decreased across monitored sites in ...

Farmers say a virus hoped to combat exploding rabbit populations has done absolutely nothing.

Farmers, ECan fight over rivers

An aerial photograph of the braided Waimakariri River, with a dairy farm on the bank.

What is a river bed? Where are its banks? These are key questions for future farming on the Canterbury Plains.

Greenpeace targets fertiliser companies

Nitrogen is either fixed naturally in the soil by plants such as clover, or by applying industrially-manufactured ...

Human rights and environmental issues are pressing on fertiliser companies.

Court to rule on $100m dairy project

The first of three planned dairy sheds at Simons Pass Station in the Mackenzie Basin.

NZ's most controversial dairy conversion encounters more hurdles.

world

PG&E 'put profits over lives'

Judge William Alsup said his goal was to prevent PG&E equipment from causing any wildfires during the 2019 fire season.

Huge US power firm enriched shareholders instead of clearing trees that can start fires, judge says.

People still flock to Facebook

Facebook's monthly active users rose 9 per cent to 2.32 billion, beating analysts' expectations of 2.31 billion.

It was expected to be a big three months for Facebook - instead, it was a cracker.

Friendly Fed boosts stocks

The S&P Index is now on track to end January with a 7 per cent gain.

Shares power higher after US interest rate hikes look less likely in the coming months.

Historian calls out billionaires on tax video

"It feels like I'm at a firefighters conference and no one's allowed to speak about water," said historian Rutger Bregman.

As business and political leaders gathered to talk about inequality, it took a historian to bring up the elephant in the room.

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