投稿者: Eva Corlett in Wellington
Finland’s PM says she met Ardern in New Zealand because they are both ‘prime ministers’ after journalist asks whether it was due to similar age and genderThe prime ministers of Finland and New Zealand have taken a swipe at suggestions their first face-…
World is watching as experts warn some borrowers could soon owe more than their house is worthSharply rising interest rates could put huge financial pressure on New Zealand homeowners who bought at the peak of the country’s overheated housing market, e…
Jayden Meyer’s sentence was labelled ‘manifestly inadequate’ after he was found guilty of five serious sexual assaults committed when he was 16A New Zealand high court has rejected the Crown’s appeal against a community sentence for a convicted teenage…
A bird lover wants Forest & Bird to include the huia, a songbird that was sacred to Māori that hasn’t been seen since 1907A passionate New Zealand bird lover has threatened the country’s popular bird of the year competition with legal action if it …
Latest figures defy widespread predictions inflation would fall, as the central banks readies an ‘outsized’ rate hikeNew Zealand’s latest inflation data defied widespread predictions it would fall on Tuesday, as it barely budged from a 30-year high, pr…
The commercial space company rejects criticism of satellite launches for the US militaryA New Zealand commercial space company, Rocket Lab, has faced new opposition to its activities on behalf of foreign militaries, with one New Zealand Green MP saying…
Secondary school competition ‘did not demonstrate the relevance to the contemporary art context of Aotearoa’New Zealand’s arts council has pulled funding for a Shakespeare festival that has been running in secondary schools for roughly three decades, a…
Photojournalist ‘brotherhood’ answers call to create charity auction of some of country’s most memorable imagesThere is the haunting 1966 image of King Korokī being carried up the sacred Mt Taupiri in his cloak-covered coffin as the mist descends; Sir …
Hepatitis C awareness ads that feature smiling actors raising their middle fingers are deemed too offensive to be airedA New Zealand health campaign designed to help curb hepatitis C has hit a stumbling block after one of its advertisements showing peo…
Farm just minutes from centre of Wellington estimates it has lost about 60 kid goats in past few monthsMarauding feral pigs have blighted a central suburb in New Zealand’s capital, killing kid goats at an urban farm, intimidating dogs and turning up in…
Settlement is the culmination of more than 30 years of fighting for reparations It took decades of fighting for reparations but a Māori tribe has finally secured a long-awaited apology and millions of dollars in redress for atrocities committed by the …
Scientists used satellite images and more than 300,000 volunteers to count Weddell seals, a key Southern Ocean indicator speciesResearchers believe they have accurately estimated Antarctica’s Weddell seal population for the first time – using images fr…
Nearly 10,000 New Zealanders are in emergency accommodation in motels, as the cost of living soars and public housing wait lists blow outKristina Reid is trying to make the best of a bad situation. The walls of the motel room she has called home for th…
Climate change named as major driver, with up to $14bn in infrastructure at risk from higher sea levelsSea levels around New Zealand rose twice as fast in the past 60 years as they did in the first half of last century, with climate change flagged as t…
Weeks after installing a network of meteor-detecting cameras, the members of Fireballs Aotearoa were granted their dearest wish: a rock that fell to EarthIt looks like a scene from a crime show as a search party in hi-vis jackets walks in formation, he…