Dene Mackenzie

Election infrastructure spending promises will expose the construction sector’s skills and talent shortage, building industry veteran Aaron Muir says.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters wants to make the SuperGold card a smart card, with users able to use pay-wave and having an account and bank through the card.

Labour would take urgent action in its first 100 days in office to pass priority policies such as support for families and students, making rental homes  warm and dry and finding solutions to...

Dunedin will  get a new hospital but the exact site is yet to be decided, a Dunedin North candidates forum was told yesterday.

Labour has lifted another policy from another party, a day after taking a policy already announced by New Zealand First and the Green Party.

National released a flurry of policy announcements yesterday, the day after the latest opinion poll showed the party trailing Labour by four points.

Neither Prime Minister Bill English nor Labour leader Jacinda Ardern appear likely to talk to Dunedin’s business leaders during the 2017 election campaign.

Labour appears to have lifted a New Zealand First policy straight from a speech made on Tuesday by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

Labour education spokesman Chris Hipkins said it was reckless of Act New Zealand  leader David Seymour to announce new charter schools would open in 2019.

ANZ Job Ads bounced back 1% in August to reach a new high, but only just, ANZ senior economist Sharon Zollner said yesterday.

New Zealand does not need any more taxi drivers or barbers, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says.

Federated Farmers is calling for clarity on what taxes they may be hit with if Labour forms the next government.

New Zealand should issue an unreserved apology to Australia if it wanted to turn around the mistreatment of young New Zealanders across the Tasman, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said.

Jobseekers without children who refused work experience, training or recreational drug rehabilitation would lose 50% of their benefit entitlement after four weeks of not meeting their obligations,...

Finance Minister Steven Joyce and Labour finance spokesman Grant Robertson continued their verbal exchange yesterday about Labour's fiscal plan.

Labour's plan to establish a vocational excellence award for top year 12 and 13 pupils in each public secondary school has been welcomed but with suggestions for improvement.

The run into economic growth, measured by gross domestic product, starts today with the release of building work put in place, to be released by Statistics New Zealand at 10.45am.

A change in government means uncertainty, which is unsettling for many.

The Property Investors Federation is not going down without a fight as it ramps up criticism of Labour's policy of making renting secure and healthy.