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The focus remains on U.S. trade policy as the August 1st deadline approaches. There’s been meaningful progress, with major deals announced from Japan and the EU over the last week. But even as tariff ...
Renee Derix from Hamilton has won the annual IHC Art Awards and a $5,000 prize with her mixed media piece Underwater. Renee ...
Drysdale’s amalgamation remit gained traction in part because Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) [the national association of councils] appeared to back it. LGNZ is supposed to be the collective ...
Detective Senior Sergeant Reece Sirl says the operation located 40,800 LSD tabs, with a street value totalling more than a ...
On the legal front, the main avenues New Zealand gangs use to obtain illegal firearms are being closed off. Under the Arms Act, members or close affiliates of a gang or an organised criminal group ...
Surgical hospital wards throughout New Zealand were short-staffed more than half of all day shifts last year, figures obtained by Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand Nurses Organisation ...
“We have also introduced FamilyBoost, which with the latest expansion gives families up to 40 per cent off their childcare costs. We have removed the Auckland fuel tax, introduced 12-month ...
Footage from cameras in billboards at city intersections have been secretly used by the NZ Transport Agency for the first time to spot cars and trucks. NZTA Waka Kotahi’s trial started in February, ...
Palmerston North social justice group Thyme for Action has launched a petition calling on Palmerston North City Council (PNCC) to support an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza and adopt an ethical ...
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is New Zealand’s flagship policy for reducing carbon emissions, offering landowners the opportunity to earn carbon credits for eligible forest land. While the scheme ...
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki – Ngā Taonga Tūturu: Treasured Māori Portraits – An exhibition of Māori portraits by ...
The New Zealand Food Network (NZFN) is celebrating five years of transforming Aotearoa’s food support ecosystem and supporting Kiwis in need – with a mammoth 5 tonne donation kicking off their ...