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Almost 90pc of Waikato businesses confident they will survive the Covid pandemic

Less than 10 per cent of Waikato businesses eyeing Government support schemes.

Waikato Inc shows most resilience in regional lockdown survey

Waikato most optimistic in survey of Auckland, Tauranga, Taupō commerce.

'Nitpicking': $1.3 billion Sleepyhead housing development faces new hurdles

Sleepyhead Estate proposal biggest economic opportunity Waikato has ever had?

Why is a govt department appealing against a major proposal in a housing crisis?

Earthworks costing $12m are well under way as publicly funded appeals go in.

Appeals send $1b Sleepyhead plan to Environment Court

Four years in planning - and counting.

New chief sponsor for Waikato business awards

The annual business awards, celebrating Waikato Inc also get a new name.

Three years planning behind Sleepyhead's magic moment

Commissioners sharply rebuke two authorities who opposed Sleepyhead Estate.

$1.2 billion Sleepyhead Estate gets green light

$1.2 billion Sleepyhead Estate at Ohinewai receives rezoning approval. Video / Supplied

Revealed: 2020's most expensive home and its All Black billionaire owners

Luxury house sales boomed again in 2020 even without foreign buyers.

Prominent iwi leader appears in court over alleged $364k fraud

Despite not entering a plea, Roger Pikia said he'd 'vigorously defend the charges'.

'Anti-business': Council opposes 1100-home Sleepyhead estate

Housing at Ohinewai would erode benefits of $100m expressway, says Waikato mayor.

Bakery ordered to pay $90,000 over migrant exploitation

Employees worked nearly 80 hours some weeks for less than the minimum wage, probe finds.

NZ already has a capital gains tax - you probably just didn't know it

There is a capital gains tax already on the books, it's just not enforced: Researchers

Residents want company out over putrid smell hanging over Waikato town

Prevailing winds blow an 'egregious heavy stink of a putrid nature' over the Waikato town.

New house buying frenzy tipped as funding fuel poured on property market

If you thought house prices were high, they could be about to rise even further.

Synlait shares rally by 10% after Pokeno settlement

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.