$4.4b City Rail Link milestone: tunnel contract signed
A milestone today with tunnel contract signed and sealed
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Consumer confidence on the brink
Infometrics' latest forecast is downbeat on growth, tipping consumer confidence to fall.
NZ's wellbeing vision confined by economic retardation
COMMENT: NZ's wellbeing needs a massive expansion of our productive sector.
Provincial Growth Fund questions grow faster than trees
Spending will be difficult to monitor to ensure taxpayers are getting value for money.
'Nora's Ark' to protect kauri from dieback threat
More than 75,000 kauri to be planted on dieback-free Māori land beside sacred Takou River.
Editorial: Caring for the carers; it's about time
EDITORIAL: It's about time such vital work by family carers is acknowledged and enabled.
Onehunga palm growers lose appeal court bid
Court delivers latest blow to former directors of Oceanic Palms.
Why I'm donating my Super - and you should too
If you don't need all of your superannuation to live a comfortable life, here's an idea.
Blood cancer: Call for better access to new treatments
Kiwis deserve the best treatments available for blood cancer, says Myeloma NZ.
Schools may scrap camps to get new grant
School camps may be an unexpected casualty of a new grant to low and mid-decile schools.
New grant 'will help NZ's learning tail'
"A huge step in the right direction for supporting the tail of learning".
Building boom keeps GDP growth on track - just
GDP growth came in on target for the first quarter but held warnings for the outlook
Claim: New offer would see deputy paid 'thousands' more than principal
The offer is worth an extra $271m, on top of the $1.2 billion already on the table
Classroom crunch: The areas where kids are learning in prefabs
A big backlog of school building work is blamed on an overstretched construction industry.
Simon Wilson: 6 myths about road safety
COMMENT: We need to take proposals to lower road speeds much more seriously.
Rising costs: The big fear for Kiwi consumers
Consumer survey shows rising living costs dominate New Zealanders' concerns.
Comment: Children had no say in the Wellbeing Budget, and that matters
Budget seems to be missing the well-being of 20% of the New Zealand population.
Listen: Arden sticks with target of 100,000 KiwiBuild houses
KiwiBuild's web site today shows just 83 homes finished.
Crown forced to buy 12 KiwiBuild homes: Collins fears 'black financial hole'
Judith Collins says the scheme is "a potential financial black hole for the Government".
Amy Adams on what 'wellbeing' Budget means
Amy Adams says the Government is rewriting history in the lead-up to the Budget.
Budget 2019: What do Māori want?
Education is at the heart of what the Māori community wants in this year's Budget.
Editorial: Much riding on Govt's mental health response
EDITORIAL: Hopes a new commission will be first step in transformational change.
Mental health crisis: 'We're at a point where we need ... a clear plan of action'
There are big hopes for the Government's mental health inquiry response and the Budget.
$8m to improve freedom camping woes
The Government money is for operating costs such as enforcement and temporary facilities.
$6.1 billion-plus: Government's three-year building plan
The report shows the scope of spending from now to 2021.
$4.4b City Rail Link tunnel boring machine: From China to Mt Eden
The $4.4b City Rail Link tunnel borer will get a female name.
The two big threats looming over $4.4b City Rail Link
$4.4b CRL tunnel phase starts soon: what's ahead of the contractors
Disability funding cuts: Commissioner seeks answers
Disabled people must be 'front and centre' of Govt's wellbeing budget, commissioner says.
Forget CGT, we need a new plan
COMMENT: The people who lose with no CGT are those who are already struggling.
Mixed reactions to Government's shutdown of CGT
The Government has categorically rejected a capital gains tax earlier today.
Watch: City Rail Link video goes underground, shows progress on $3.4b project
Watch: Beneath Auckland, watch the City Rail Link being built.
Legislation to battle cowboy clampers introduced
Legislation to curb wheel-clamping cowboys has its first reading at Parliament today.
Government has no more money to offer schools, strikes looming
School strikes loom following the rejection of the latest Government pay offer.
Former KiwiBuild leader disputes claims about his behaviour
Details of a dispute between the former KiwiBuild chief and a ministry boss have emerged.