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Legal claim launched alleging defects in New Lynn's Merchant Quarter: no hearing yet

Statement of claim lodged, no date has yet been set for a hearing in court.

Market close: Energy stocks help boost sharemarket

Meridian Energy, Mercury and Contact all had share price rises.

Rideshare on three wheels

Self-driving e-scooter service Ario launching in West Auckland this Wednesday. Video / Ario

Tiwai deal opens door for new power projects

Contact Energy has started its first battery project and says more will follow.

Self-driving e-scooter service Ario launching in West Auckland

Three-wheelers can be remote-controlled.

King's counsel barrister v Auckland Council over Point Wells seawall: who won?

Issues from the case have wider implications: Auckland has a vast 3200km of coastline.

Cambridge start-up scores electric car breakthrough with five-minute charge

New battery promises petrol parity in what could be an end to ‘range anxiety’.

Opinion: Farmers need this medicine for carbon emission reporting headaches

OPINION: Farmers have enough troubles but sharing data on emissions could ease the burden.

‘Drain’ leaves NZ’s unemployment higher than Australia

Migration across the Tasman so high it's skewing unemployment rate at national levels.

Is cash still king? And do stores have to accept it?

ANZ says fewer than 1% of banking transactions are now made in person.

Markets with Madison: Gold rush

Santana Minerals has discovered more gold at a mine in Central Otago. With prices around record highs, could this fuel New Zealand’s next gold rush? Video / Alyse Wright

Gold rush? Atop the multi-billion-dollar discovery in Central Otago

An Australian company thinks it could profit up to $2 billion off this mine.

What's eating TVNZ? Big losses, more cuts to come - inside a bold and brutal five-year strategy

Spotlight on TVNZ leadership after missteps: 'They need a commercial board to survive.'

China's June factory activity contracts again, services slows

China's economy struggles to get back on its feet.

Kiwifruit industry 'booming', licence and orchard prices fall

Fewer orchards staying in families as syndicate ownership picked as a growing trend.

Will cash-strapped Synlait Milk survive?

As a vital shareholder meeting approaches, China's Bright Dairy says Synlait can survive.