Television channel Three owner Discovery will launch two new channels in March and plans to increase the volume of locally-produced entertainment shows it screens by 70 per cent. Glen Kyne, general manager of Discovery in New Zealand and Australia, said the business had performed well and the “major investment” in local content meant Three would […]

MPs have passed a law to make older migrants, and New Zealanders who spent large portions of their lives overseas, wait longer to qualify for NZ Super. Currently, NZ Super is paid to people aged 65 ​or over who have been “resident and present” in New Zealand for 10 ​years after the age of 20​, […]

A New Zealand medical and logistics support team with essential supplies to assist Papua New Guinea with its Covid-19 crisis have departed New Zealand. Associate Foreign Minister Aupito William Sio said the PNG government has formally requested humanitarian and medical support from partner governments to respond to the health crisis, with rising case numbers, hospitalisations […]

Many pest-free islands are sucking noticeably more carbon since introduced predators were removed, according to a study that looked at 130 New Zealand islands. Researchers used remote satellite sensing and artificial intelligence to track whether removing invasive pests from islands had boosted tree cover and density on 460 islands globally, including Little Barrier, Motiti, Raoul, […]

New Zealand English is based on British English, however over the past six decades our language has become unique, borrowing words and phrases from other countries and in some cases other languages. Below is a collection of examples where New Zealand English has borrowed from American English. 1. Assuming that for you pass and gas […]

The European Union’s ambassador says the EU is unlikely to match New Zealand’s recent zero-tariff trade deal with the United Kingdom, and has played down concerns that France wants to delay NZ-EU free trade negotiations. Chief negotiators will next week “take stock” of the prospective NZ-EU free trade deal, after four weeks of negotiations that […]

With Auckland’s house prices continuing to climb Aucklanders are deciding to move to the regions for more affordable living. Auckland recorded its first ever population decrease in the year to June. Southland and the West Coast were the only other areas that reported a decline. All other regions have experianced steady population growth which in […]

The Government says it will look at a “quirk” in immigration policy that means some workers have to leave the country and fly back in to be eligible for next year’s one-off residence visa. Some overseas medical staff in hospitals and aged-care facilities are among those whose visa type exclude them being one of next […]

Auckland’s Delta outbreak has coincided with a “drastic” surge in Covid-19 disinformation that’s outstripped even that observed online over all of last year. Now, researchers are concerned that our parallel “infodemic” is steering the vaccine hesitant toward extreme, far-right ideologies that target minorities. A new report – released on a day that thousands of people […]

Five fishermen were caught with 99 snapper, including 38 undersize fish in east Auckland on Saturday night. Ministry for Primary Industries Auckland fishery officers seized a recreational boat after the group were found at the Half Moon Bay boat ramp in east Auckland. As the daily bag limit for snapper in the Hauraki Gulf is […]