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Market close: NZ sharemarket starts December down 0.3%

Business confidence is at its highest in 11 years.

Watch: Inside Auckland’s $1 billion new convention centre

The $1b centre will open to the public on February 11 next year.

Ponsonby beauty clinic with staff at centre of wage dispute owes almost $500,000

The Ponsonby Rd branch of Laser Clinics New Zealand has been closed since August.

32 more dairy farms for Canterbury as some grain growers go for milk

Up to 25,000 more dairy cows could be added to Canterbury's herd this year.

Why Ikea's new Auckland store had to be built like a near-hospital-strength bunker

Builders spent six months driving 550 piles through volcanic rock beneath the site.

Inside the $1 billion NZ International Convention Centre

NZICC general manager Prue Daly on Auckland's new convention centre, 10 years in the making, and its pipeline of events. Video / Dean Purcell

$50m Tiwai plan to process toxic smelter waste on site

Construction is set to start in the second quarter of 2026, creating 26 jobs.

Airbus A320 software issue made for a hectic weekend at airports

Airlines have praised customer responses after a 'very rare situation'.

Popular social media identity working in Labour leader's office – private post falls foul of Speaker

Gerry Brownlee says he will crack down on any social posts that breach standing orders.

Editorial: What we can learn from Mamas Donuts

OPINION: Businesses don't have to suffer in silence when the walls are closing in.

Inside the rise of Kenyon and Charlotte Clarke and the $268m fall of Du Val

Staff, investors and experts share new details in a podcast series from BusinessDesk.

From mussel shocks to seaweed hot sauce: How this smokehouse stayed afloat

Owner Jessica Jones has tripled sales since buying the business pre-Covid.

Mark Lister: The upside of short-term sharemarket pain

OPINION: Nine market dips of 10% or more have occurred since 2010, lasting three months.

Deborah Chambers: What my first husband’s early death taught me about divorce and mortality

OPINION: Unless you've been divorced, it's hard to grasp the pain of ending a marriage.

Microsoft New Zealand sees strong revenue growth – turnover now double its 2021 level

The threat of a digital services tax has melted away.

The Ex-Files: Can I get my ex to pay half our daughter’s orthodontic work?

He says our daughter’s crooked teeth are a minor cosmetic matter and won’t contribute.