Canterbury-based Alyssa Wilson (17) is the 2021 recipient of Apiculture New Zealand Ron Mossop Youth Scholarship in beekeeping. Alyssa topped a strong field of candidates to win the scholarship, which includes $2000 to support training and set-up costs ...
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) is calling on the Government to pause progress on the Oversight of Oranga Tamariki System and Children and Young People’s Commission Bill to allow for proper consultation with children, young people and their families. ...
A new study from Motu Research shows the 2018 increases by the New Zealand Government in accommodation welfare support has not led to increases in rents. In 2018, the Government changed its Accommodation Supplement policy. The Government made large ...
Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited (Domino's) today announced it has signed an agreement with Flirtey Inc. (SkyDrop) to expand its drone food delivery trials in New Zealand. After making history with the world’s first pizza delivery by drone from the Domino’s ...
Royal Navy ship HMS Spey arrived into Tonga today (Wednesday 26 January) where her crew have unloaded disaster relief following the devastating Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai underwater volcanic eruption and tsunami. The Batch 2 Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) ...
Aucklanders will be angered to learn that despite paying over half a billion dollars in Regional Fuel Tax, less than half of that money has actually been spent on transport projects in our city, National’s Transport spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Despite ...
A new report from Vision Research International shows the total costs of vision loss in New Zealand, including the total for lost well-being, has increased to $3.74 billion in 2021, an increase of 33.6 percent since 2009. The economic and financial ...
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) - Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko - has today published its annual report for the year to June 2021 . Throughout the year, the FMA continued to prepare for three new regulatory regimes, including the licensing and supervising ...
Global technology market research company IDC has published its 2022 Top 10 IT Industry trends for Australia and New Zealand. The report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2022 Predictions – Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Implications , provides IDC's ...
The whole of the Marlborough District, including Department of Conservation land, is now in a prohibited fire season. The change takes effect from Thursday 27 January 2022 at 8:00am. A prohibited fire season means the lighting of fires in open air ...
Press Release – Trade Me Property Porirua rents continue to be the most expensive in the country. The median weekly rent in Porirua hit a record high $700 in December. Lower Hutt ($615), Masterton ($540), and Upper Hutt ($630) also saw all-time high median weekly rents in December. The median weekly rent in Wellington City […]
News from Cricket Wellington New Zealand Cricket has moved to streamline its home international schedules for the Blackcaps and White Ferns in order to mitigate the risk of an Omicron outbreak compromising upcoming fixtures. The immediate changes will see the South Africa men’s side remaining in Christchurch for the entire duration of its visit, playing […]
Toro y Moi , a.k.a Chaz Bear , announces his new album MAHAL due April 29th via Dead Oceans . The 13-track project marks the seventh studio album from Bear under the Toro y Moi moniker. To celebrate the announcement, Toro y Moi ...
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People are being urged to tackle perennial invasive moth plant as soon as possible before its kapok-like seed pods mature, then burst and infest new areas. Jack Craw, who chairs the Northland Regional Council’s Biosecurity and Biodiversity ...
Report from RNZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is today visiting a Lower Hutt vaccination centre to mark 90 percent of Māori in the region being double vaccinated. Tamaiti Whāngai is a kaupapa Māori vaccination centre in Waiwhetū. The Prime Minister is visiting to mark the milestone of 90 percent double vaccination for Māori in the […]
10 Cents Off All Fuel Types From 7AM Thursday 27 January 2022 until 12PM Midday Friday 28 January 2022 27 January 2022 – This week most Kiwi’s will be returning to work and school after a well-deserved summer holiday, and so Gull would like to ...
New Zealand’s national median rent climbed $40 a week in 2021 to reach $560 in December, according to Trade Me’s latest Rental Price Index. Trade Me Property Sales Director Gavin Lloyd said last month’s national median weekly rent ...
Trintech Is the Only Financial Close Solution Provider with Certified Integrations Across All Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud ERP Platforms Trintech Adra expands its partnership with Microsoft by announcing its newest integration into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business ...
Trintech Is the Only Financial Close Solution Provider with Certified Integrations Across All Microsoft Dynamics 365 Cloud ERP Platforms Trintech Adra expands its partnership with Microsoft by announcing its newest integration into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business ...
As New Zealand faces community transmission of the Omicron variant, too many people who experience mental distress or addictions remain unvaccinated. The total New Zealand vaccination rates are now very high, with over one million people boosted and 93% ...
( Auckland - 27 January 2022 ) The New Zealand Television Awards is thrilled to announce actor, writer and director Ian Mune as the recipient of the 2021 New Zealand Television Legend Award*. The New Zealand Television Awards also reveals finalists ...
Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust For 27 January 2022 Today we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, a crime of shocking inhumanity that ...
UVA Cancer Center Expert Co-Chairs Blue-Ribbon Panel CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 26, 2022 – New guidelines for treating cancers that have spread to the brain are poised to improve care for patients and help many live longer, better lives. The ...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2022 GENEVA (26 January 2022) – On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN human rights experts* reiterate their calls to combat antisemitism and all forms of religious ...