This afternoon on NZ Herald Focus John Key rules out any ransom payment for New Zealander kidnapped in Nigeria and surface flooding is causing chaos on roads across the middle of the country as the Government announces extra funding to make our State Highways safer.
American Airlines resumes flights between New Zealand and the US this week. Aviation writer Grant Bradley talks to the airline's American Airlines vice president for Asia Pacific Erwan Perhirin about its plans. Video / Grant Bradley
Ahead of the SingularityU conference in Christchurch this November, Holly Ryan talked to event organiser Kaila Colbin about what the singularity means.
How bad would a Brexit be for the UK economy? And will the fallout reach New Zealand? Liam Dann talks to Auckland University Professor Prasanna Gai and ASB senior economist Jane Turner about the risks.
Archive: Spark chief executive and managing director Simon Moutter shares his thoughts on multinational companies paying next to nothing on tax. June 2016.
Port of Auckland CEO Tony Gibson on the value of shipping and the growth of the port.
Britain will to go to the polls tomorrow to decide whether or not they remain part of the European Union, what impact will it have on New Zealand Rikki Swannell on her new NZ Herald series, She’s Got Game’, profiling our female athletes on the road to Rio.
Israel's military says it is investigating a recent incident at an air force base in which soldiers were ordered to stand in formation to spell out the Google logo for the company's visiting executives.
Ahead of a June 23 referendum on European Union membership, many of London's leading lights are deeply worried about its future. Since almost exactly 30 years ago, when Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher liberalised finance through a package of reforms so dramatic it was dubbed the Big Bang, London has become the undisputed financial capital of a united Europe - a status that now hangs in the balance.
The British entrepreneur Richard Branson raises the spectre of a trade war if Britain were to leave the EU, saying it would be "catastrophic for the long term future of Great Britain". Source: AFP
Around a thousand people have spent the night parked up in Auckland's Mangere Town Centre in a show of solidarity with the homeless and a group of English fans in France for the Euro 2016 soccer championship have been caught taunting begging children in the street.
New Zealand's biggest uniform make-over is under way, as 4000 staff at the country's largest retirement village go bright floral. Supplied video.
Air NZ has released the latest in its series of behind the scenes videos - meet the man behind your in-flight meals.
We have an exclusive interview with Journalist Phil Taylor on Teina Pora’s compensation offer and the wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month has been found.
Agriculture exports have risen despite the dairy downturn. Liam Dann talks to KPMG’s Simon Hunter and NZEIR economist Christina Leung about what’s driving growth.
ASB Bank rural economist Nathan Penny talks about the latest world dairy auction and farmer sentiment at Fieldays.
The man who was once the FBI's most-wanted hacker will visit New Zealand to raise awareness about the threat cybercrime poses to organisations. Source: Big Think
Datacom’s Vernon Kay talks about the company’s annual hackathon event.
Tristram Clayton and the Focus team report from the biggest week on the agricultural calendar , the annual Fieldays event at Mystery Creek
We take you to Fieldays to give you a first-hand glimpse of the future of farming innovation and Teina Pora is expected to be given more than two million dollars in compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment.
As Fieldays kicks off, KPMG global head of agribusiness talks to Fran O’Sullivan about innovation needed in the primary sector.
Fran O'Sullivan speaks to Trade Minister Todd McClay about the Regional Economic Partnership Agreement.
Nick Mowbray, the Director and President of toymaker Zuru, dropped into NZME offices to talk to Herald reporter Holly Ryan about the company's amazing success.
It’s estimated there are 150 million children engaged in child labour around the world and a record breaking haul of methamphetamine worth $448 million has been seized in Kaitaia.
EY's World Entrepreneur of the Year award could be classified as a win for us. Craig Hickson was the nominee from New Zealand, while Australia's Manny Stul, chief executive of Moose Holdings, clinched the win.
Spark CEO Simon Moutter tells why he led a business mission to Israel to checkout the innovation system.
Fonterra Chairman John Wilson talks about today's board governance vote
Do Wales stand a chance against the All Blacks this Saturday? and New Zealand's gross debt has hit half a trillion dollars with housing accounting for $218 billion of that. Expert Liam Dann breaks down the figures.
NZ Herald's business editor at large Liam Dann talks about NZ's domestic debt bomb - should we be worried?
Air New Zealand has released the latest in its series of behind the scenes videos - revealing a day in the life of a regional flight attendant.
Interview with CEO's John Fellet & Russell Stanners about the Vodafone & Sky TV merger.