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Diana Clement: Simple steps to cut banking costs and save big

OPINION: Banks earn billions while Kiwis pay avoidable fees and interest.

'Transformative moment': Dame Lisa Carrington backs women's basketball

Her involvement highlights increasing momentum for women's sports in NZ.

Company's switch to rail transport 'another positive forestry story'

Forest360's move takes 8 truck & trailer loads of logs off the road to New Plymouth daily.

Inside the secret 3-year criminal case against Auckland's luxury doggy daycare

Prosecutors claim the firm earned $180k in extra profits by ignoring resource consents.

Liam Dann: Are Kiwis about to be hit with an ‘austerity Budget’?

The Finance Minister faces a difficult balancing act with this month's Budget.

Watch: Cessna aircraft makes emergency landing on golf course near shocked onlookers

Bystanders can be heard exclaiming in shock as the plane lands roughly at the LA course.

Steven Joyce: The Maga model stumbles amid Canadian, Australian elections

Canada's Liberal Party made a stunning comeback, winning a plurality of seats.

Fran O'Sullivan: Nicola Willis needs to address NZ Super age now

OPINION: Talk of 'no frills' and 'lolly scrambles' in the Budget is just a distraction.

Mary Holm: Trying to time the share or property market is a fool’s game

OPINION: You never know when bad luck might strike.

Westpac fined $3.25m for misleading customers

Bank's 'systems were insufficient', says Judge.

Agents fined $35,000 after vendor suffers $73,000 loss on sale

The Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal ruling is seen as an unusual case.

AgriZeroNZ boosts funding for methane-reducing cow feed

US start-up Hoofprint Biome aims to lower the climate-warming impact of cow burps.

Bega Group claims to be left out of Fonterra consumer business sale

Billionaire Twiggy Forrest is the largest shareholder of the Aussie dairy company.

Matthew Hooton: Labour’s credibility demands big new tax promises

OPINION: There’s no room for any new spending by anyone without massive tax hikes.

Jamie Beaton’s Crimson buys Being AI’s school in Takapuna, reveals more bricks-and-mortar plans

The troubled Being AI slims down.

Auckland Airport to get new cargo precinct as fruit and vege freight booms

Airport outlines cargo precinct plan. Meanwhile, a US duty-free ban takes effect today.

Stock Takes: Rain not enough to stop dry weather from hurting NZ power company earnings

Mercury, Meridian and Manawa are likely to be hit hardest by the earlier drought.

On The Up: Christchurch builders rally to support St John with charity house project

Around 30 companies are supporting the charity project.