Kiwifruit marketer has gone from boom to bust to boom again.

Kawerau Mayor Malcolm Campbell discusses what the industrial service centre needs to do to ensure a prosperous future, after a Maxim Institute report forecast population decline in the area in the next two decades. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: Record-breaking migration brings positives as well as challenges, writes Mark Lister.

Nowhere are China's rusted-out industries worse than in Liaoning, a province that's slumped into outright recession.

TONGUE-PIERCER: Art + Body owner Julie Paama-Pengelly watches Siobhan Mikaere demonstrate the piercing of Sunny Yu Sun's tongue. PHOTO

An Whangarei engineering firm has been ordered to pay more than $70,000 after an employee injured an index finger which had to be

Construction giant Fletcher Building is being picked to have a strong year ahead by analysts.

Wool prices at this week's auction fell, particularly for varieties sourced from the North Island.

Almost 100 young people will get free restricted licences in Taumarunui, getting them off the street and into employment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

UNCOVERED: One worker revealed that he worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for six months, earning just $5 an hour.

It is hard to gauge the size of the Asian paddle crab invasion at Ngunguru as they are so aggressive and territorial they won't share

Ongare Point, just north of Katikati is home to a massive community effort to clean up the waterways. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: Getting the right number of workers with the right skills at the right time in an economy doesn't just happen.

Fewer than half of councils have enough staff trained to respond to marine oil spills.

Schools are struggling to recruit hundreds of teachers ahead of the 2017 school year.

Businesses in quake-hit areas will be paid to keep on staff for at least eight weeks, the Govt says.

Napier dog owners were greeted with a protest as they drove to the Bark Island event in Park Island yesterday,on Sunday, with more

Exporters are anxiously waiting to see whether Trump's rhetoric during the election campaign translates into policy

The Immigration Minister has been on the defensive this year but his own advice to Cabinet suggests deep dissatisfaction with the points system.

The BNZ-BusinessNZ performance of services index declined to a seasonally adjusted 54.1 in September.

Nearly 150 workers at an aluminium company have walked off the job in protest over a pay offer, says the union that represents them. E

COMMENT: Public interest test aims to find best solution for industry and consumers.

Bay of Plenty employers have collectively paid out more than $548,400 over the past four years for causing serious harm to their workers

Wool prices rose at the first auction following the Christmas and New Year holiday period, helped by the lower New Zealand dollar.

Retired professor Dick Wilkins asks, why has AgResearch put such a huge effort into transgenic work, with so little return over 15 years, given the ongoing dire straits of the company?

If AgResearch were to disappear from the face of the earth, there would hardly be a ripple in New Zealand agriculture, writes Dick Wilkins. This is a tragedy, and the only solution is to disband AgResearch as we know it.

The real costs of single-use plastic packaging is not taken into account, writes Sam Judd. If it was, we would be consuming far less and our society would be much better off.

After almost four years of delays, the Mitsubishi Regional Jet will make its debut flight in the second half of October.

Gold futures have fallen for the second time in three days amid mounting speculation that the US Fed will raise interest rates.

The prices eased in the first sale of the new 2015/16 season as demand weakened.