16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (420+ words) Forget the pitch-deck projections that usually accompany tech stories. Flicket, the Mount Maunganui digital ticketing and visitor management platform, is on track to process $350 million in transactions across 4,000 events in 2026. That is current operating scale, not ambition, and it is…...

16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (554+ words) In September 2022, Hamilton senior firefighter Paloma Serville and her crew performed CPR and a four-person lift of a 140kg patient during an emergency callout. Serville hurt her back. It was initially misdiagnosed as a lumbar sprain. Almost three years passed before…...

16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (524+ words) A collapsed developer selling apartments below cost is not, on its own, a market-moving event. What makes DDL Estates worth watching is the arithmetic behind it and what those forced sales do to everyone else’s numbers. When DDL fell over,…...

16+ hour, 27+ min ago   (215+ words) Parliament passed a law to help stop shoplifters. The industry it was meant to empower is telling its members to ignore it. That is not a slow start, it is a total gap between political intent and operational reality, and…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (513+ words) Cromwell is a Central Otago town of 7,500 people. It is not on Tourism New Zealand’s greatest-hits reel and it does not spend millions promoting itself. Yet Kiwi Water Park, an inflatable playground on Lake Dunstan, now pulls tourists off the…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (388+ words) Stuff reported this week that a written-off luxury EV, an Audi e-tron, had been listed for sale a second time without a clear damage history attached. Treat the individual case as illustrative rather than settled. But the structural problem it…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (268+ words) The timing is deliberate. The Conservation Amendment Bill is still before the Environment Select Committee, and its final shape now hinges on who forms the next government. For business readers, this is not an abstract values debate. It is a…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (625+ words) Labour is selling its capital gains tax as narrow, targeted, and something nine out of ten New Zealanders will never pay. Businesses, the pitch goes, are excluded. The family home is out. Farms, KiwiSaver, shares and retirement savings are all…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (493+ words) The headline figure from the Global Dairy Trade auction on 2 September was almost flat, up just under 0.1% to US$3910 (NZ$6639) per tonne. On its own, that reads as a non-event. In context, it is the story. This is the time…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (379+ words) On 4 February 2026, a trapped air bubble in a bypass pipe flooded critical electrical gear at Wellington’s Moa Point wastewater plant and shut down the city’s primary sewage treatment facility. Since then roughly 14 billion litres of untreated sewage has been discharged…...