Plug-in registrations nearly tripled in October without a cent of rebate money. For any business running a petrol fleet, the more urgent number is what those vehicles will be worth at trade-in.

Apprenticeship Boost pays employers $500 a month for a first-year apprentice. Here's what it covers, how apprentice numbers moved and what the parties propose.

Ipsos rates Labour most capable on all five top concerns. A Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll had National ahead on the economy. How the two polls differ.

A Rotorua judge must now decide whether a rest home should have stopped a resident with dementia from smoking in his own room. The defence says operators have already reached their own answer, which ...

New Zealand now has a government-issued digital credential that lets firms prove who they are once. The technology works. The open question is whether IRD, ACC, councils and regulators will stop ...

The regulator's latest review is better than last year's, but the second-partner check meant to catch bad audits missed three of the four failures. The weakest point is the valuation of the private ...

The annual figure is the best since 2022, but the monthly trend turned before the champagne was opened. Builders, merchants and developers planning for easy volume are reading the wrong number.

New Zealand has had no shortage of solar announcements. Lightyears' $174 million deal is different because the money arrives only as projects hit their milestones.

On paper, lifting the top rate to 45% raises $1.1 billion. Once high earners, trusts and GST receipts respond, new modelling puts the real gain nearer $300 million, and New Zealand has already watched ...

For a decade New Zealand's big banks have profited from customers who never leave. Revolut's new licence, deposit guarantee and teaser rate are the first serious test of how much that inertia is ...

Household arrears are falling and mortgage stress is at its lowest since 2022. Yet cafes, bars and shops are being wound up faster than ever, and the recovery everyone keeps forecasting is arriving ...

Nine in ten international students now rate their time here positively, and the sector is earning more than it did before Covid from 20% fewer students. Education is quietly one of the few export ...