投稿者: Eva Corlett in Wellington
The company, which created an app that is now used in more than 180 countries, wanted to thank its 53 employees for helping it growAn education app founded by a group of university students nine years ago has surprised its 53 employees with a NZ$10,000…
No stunt, say organisers, who wanted to raise awareness of the pekapeka-tou-roa, which faces the same threats as native birdsIn a huge upset to New Zealand birds, but a win for one of the country’s only native land mammals, a bat has swooped in “by a l…
Tens of thousands of homes are exposed on country’s vast coastline, as climate change exacerbates extreme weatherThe tiny settlement of Westport is no stranger to a deluge – the oldest European settlement in the South Island sits on New Zealand’s West …
With government-controlled quarantine spots in very short supply and long waiting lists for flights home, some stranded citizens are taking to the seasSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders stranded in Australia are sailing across the Tasman Se…
In the run-up to the Glasgow conference, James Shaw admits he is unhappy with New Zealand’s track record on emissions but insists there is room for hopeNew Zealand’s climate change minister James Shaw has revealed his official and unofficial coping mec…
Dame Cindy, the first in her family to graduate from university, rose to become a pro-vice chancellor at the University of AucklandThe first Māori woman to be named governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Cindy Kiro, has been sworn in at an intimate cere…
Director general of health says country is following similar trajectory to UK, with vast majority of hospital cases being unvaccinatedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s daily Covid-19 case numbers have gone into three figures for the first t…
Housing campaigners welcome changes, saying they will boost businesses, lower emissions and enable better transport linksNew Zealand’s cities could be reshaped for decades to come, after the government joined forces with the opposition to announce swee…
Ian Brackenbury Channell was paid $16,000 a year to provide ‘acts of wizardry’ for the city of ChristchurchThe official Wizard of New Zealand, perhaps the only state-appointed wizard in the world, has been cast from the public payroll, spelling the end…
Plans for how health system would deal with surge revealed as country records 71 new casesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand is preparing to face up to 5,300 cases of Covid-19 a week in Auckland and the neighbouring region of Northland alone n…
Routinely outshone in the polls by Jacinda Ardern, Collins now faces a challenge from a rival right-wing party“There are three ways in which opposition leaders end being opposition leaders,” the National party’s leader, Judith Collins, says: “one, they…
Epidemiologist Michael Baker also recommended people get their second vaccine dose after three weeks rather than sixSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders who have managed to escape coming into contact with Covid-19 should ready themselves to e…
Ngātiwai tribal leaders formally listed as official naming authorities for the tiny creature A tiny candy-stick coloured pygmy pipehorse, discovered in a small area off New Zealand’s north coast has been given a Māori name by the local iwi (tribe) – in…
Head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter Sonny Fatupaito was asked to encourage gang members and their families to get testedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has endorsed granting a Mongrel Mob leader special e…
Prime minister says the use of vaccines means country now has ‘more options’ on how to control virus See all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s elimination strategy will be phased out in favour of a new model that takes into account vaccination rate…