Business & Markets

Visitors: Travel industry scrambles to gear up

A battered travel industry is scrambling to get the cars, buses, and workers to gear up for a return of increasing numbers of visitors but faces plenty of obstacles... Read More

Don’t miss farming’s big event

Fieldays is encouraging people to apply now to exhibit at the iconic four-day event. On average 130,000 people walk through the gates at Fieldays each year but... Read More

Home values fall to levels of November last year

The latest QV House Price Index shows the housing market has fallen back to the same levels seen at the end of November 2021, as rising interest rates and credit... Read More

Tauranga hosts diplomats in “rare opportunity”

As New Zealand's international borders begin to open, this week's foreign Heads of Mission diplomat tour of Tauranga comes at a crucial time for the region, highlighting... Read More

Lodestone Energy raises $300m for five solar farms

A company looking to build five large scale solar farms, with one in Coromandel and one in Eastern Bay of Plenty, has got the financial backing of some well heeled... Read More

Primary Industries NZ Awards finalists named

Projects, teams and innovations as diverse as low methane-emitting sheep, a constructed wetlands uptake campaign, and a foodbank fruit and vegetable box initiative... Read More

Celebrating World Food Safety Day in NZ

World Food Safety Day - June 7 - is a good opportunity to celebrate the thousands of New Zealanders who work hard every day to keep our food safe, says New Zealand... Read More

Tauranga ideal location for superyacht ‘birthday’

A 25-year ‘birthday' for a New Zealand-built superyacht turned into a sort of homecoming, when she was recently fully refitted in Tauranga. S/Y Miss... Read More

Donut surprise for Tauranga essential workers

It was a happy donut day surprise for some of Tauranga city's essential workers on Friday, when one of their colleagues at Council nominated them for a fun... Read More

US plastic surgeon‘s research booster for NZ wool

A US plastic surgeon's research into wound repair is set to provide a boost for New Zealand's regeneratively farmed wool exports. The research has led to the... Read More

‘Golden Hour’ takes gold

Mount Brewing Co is absolutely buzzing after their beer ‘Golden Hour' has enjoyed a winning streak in not one, but two beer awards this month. Having... Read More

What‘s on today? Balm workshop, little big markets

Good morning, and welcome to what's on Saturday. Ko te ra tenei i hanga e te Ariki. Ka koa tatou, ka koa hoki ki reira. MetService are forecasting a partly cloudy... Read More