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This fast track to corruption bill, is more worrying than the budget…

A Ministry of Education official has admitted the alternative model for the government’s free school lunch programme is unlikely to be as nutritious as the previous programme, RNZ understands....

Budget Day ‘carkoi’ protests delayed traffic on Auckland and Tauranga motorways ahead of a hikoi on Parliament....

Major loyalty scheme FlyBuys will come to an end later this year....

Fewer babies and migration that “fell off a cliff” during Covid-19 have contributed to slower population growth in New Zealand, the first Census results released today reveal....

The Reserve Bank says that from 1 July, banks will only be able to lend about 20 percent of their new lending to owner-occupier borrowers with a debt-to-income ratio of more than six. That means, if your household earns a combined $100,000, your loan will be limited to $600,000....

New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in Covid-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says....

From 30 May, New Zealand’s four major banks - ANZ, ASB, BNZ and Westpac - must offer the secure payment service - although some already have it in place....

A bill designed to give consumers more control over their data will be introduced into Parliament tomorrow, the minister of commerce and consumer affairs says....

I am saying this unironically....

Your tax dollars are going to John Key folks. This is how the privatisation of state housing is going.

Surely all these people losing decent paying jobs will have no impact on the economy right? Definitely not a recession right?

***A push to legalise all drugs in New Zealand hasn’t come from stoners and the strung out - it’s backed by 155 academics and experts who say the current regime doesn’t work ***...

This is such a bizarre thing to have such a blow up over. I don’t use public transport, so I’ve never heard these announcements, are they really that bad?

cross-posted from: lemmy.nz/post/10239601...

The residents of an island in Northland are grappling with an unusual problem - they have too many kiwi....

A searing heat wave has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink....

Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....

More than 4000 people have already been laid off as a result of the austerity measures imposed by the NACTF government.

The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households’ demand on Friday....